3 Mar
2004
3 Mar
'04
2:55 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:56:17PM +0100, august wrote:
actually, I think Tom's suggest was on track....to set the socket in non-blocking mode, and then mabey poll() the filedescriptor ?????
Most of the literature I've read (such as _Linux Socket Programming_ by Que publishing) seems to suggest setting up the socket and then using select to check for data periodically. You should do the same for detecting a time-out as someone else has suggested.
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