On Friday 08 August 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need > >> to do a > >> read from an fd, but I need to associate it with a timeout, on the order > >> of 1 > >> second, something like that. I had the feeling that there's a function > >> in FreeBSD's libc that makes that simple, but I forget the function > >> name. If anyone can remember something like what I'm talking about, I > >> sure would appreciate a function name. I can figure out how it works, > >> if I could only > >> dredge up that name. > > > > man 2 select > > If the fd is a socket then you can also use setsockopt(2) to set > SO_RCVTIMEO and check for EWOULDBLOCK (same as EAGAIN) upon read(2) or > recv(2) errors. The net effect is the same of using select but the > syntax is simpler, IMO.
I think poll(2) is also simpler than select for this purpose. -- Pieter de Goeje _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
