Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerw...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> That complicates things quite a bit,
> especially given that it has to be grafted on at least two layers of the
> IO stack (the raw IO layer, and the buffered IO layer).

Also the TextIO layer I think.

> That's my opinion too. So, instead, of doing the above surgery inside
> the IO stack, the SocketIO layer could detect the timeout and disallow
> further access. What do you think?

So after a timeout occurs the file-object basically becomes worthless? Would it 
make sense to automatically call the close method of the file-object after this 
occurs?

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