recv timeout
Angelo Fraietta
afraiett at bigpond.net.au
Sun Sep 26 19:09:17 UTC 2004
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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