"Paul Rubin" <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Swaroop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> PLS HELP..I am working on socket programming as part of my final year
>> project. I want to know how to set a timeout on read api that reads
>> from a socket. Is it possible using SIGALRM signal?Will setting
>> O_NONBLOCK flag of the socket help? Is there any other way to do it?
> You could do it with sigalrm but more common is to set a timeout on
> the socket (see the settimeout method in the doc). You could also use
> select with a timeout, and not read until the select tells you that
> data is available.
Just don't forget to set the socket non-blocking.
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