Re: [PATCH v2] Add a receive_timeout option for sockets

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 09:44:25AM +0100, Petr Pisar wrote:

If a network is unreliable, you will have similar problem with writing
to the TCP socket. I think it would be better to rename the option to
socket_timeout and use the same value for both setsockopt(, SO_RCVTIMEO, ) and
setsockopt(, SO_SNDTIMEO, ).

If that's not always the case then we can add a SNDTIMEO too.

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Thanks for your feedback Petr. In my experience, I've found that writing (small amounts) to a "hung" socket doesn't seem to be a problem - the computer buffers it or something; it's trying to read the response back that hangs. The $imap_poll_timeout code works in that way, at least, sending a NOOP and polling those seconds for a response.

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