recv timeout

[Angelo Fraietta]

Eric Norum wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Steve Holle wrote:
>
>> I have a simple socket application and I would like to timeout recv 
>> after a fixed period of inactivity.  I found an article showing how 
>> to do it using select but I am under the impression this is not 
>> supported.
>>
>> What would be the best way to accomplish the timeout.
>
>
> select() works with sockets, but is a very expensive call.  A better 
> technique is to use the SO_RCVTIMEO socket option.
>

Do you have an example or code snippet using it?.

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