[fpc-pascal]How to get read-timeouts when reading sockets?

[Peter Vreman]

> Hi!
> 
> Yesterday evening I tried to build a little telnet-program, just to 
> test the IP-socket-implementation.
> 
> I took the finger-sourcecode, but I got the problem, that I couldn't 
> determine if there were any data left to read. The eof seems to occur 
> only when the socket is closed?
> 
> Additionally it seems important to me that there is a timeout when 
> waiting for data just because otherwise a non-standard answer could 
> block this program.

You need to use select()