[fpc-devel]Timing out a syscall?

[Mike Ravkin]

That works fine after the connect(), but connect() itself is blocking, and
can take as long as it feels like.. this is obviously bad.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel]Timing out a syscall?


> > What's the proper way to time out a socket connect function, or another
> > syscall? Putting it in a thread and then terminating the thread after X
> > seconds leaves zombie processes, wich are not good.
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> use select() to check if there is data before reading data from the
socket.
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