Shay Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Linux maintainers, > > I'm doing : > > setsockopt(s, SO_RCVTIMEO, t1 ); // set time-out > t1 on socket while block receiving on it > select(,,, &fd_set_including(s), .., &errs, t2); // block till > receive or time-out t 2 jointly on a set of sockets > > Apparently, I could no find reference on the coupled behavior of the two > above statements in Linux documentation. > As I understand the blocking semantics, I would expect that if t1<t2 , > select should return after t1 with the descriptor 's' in 'errs' if 's' does > not become readable in the t1 interval. > > It is not so in life -- select ignores t1 altogether. > > Do you have some enlightening knowledge on the matter?
RCVTIMEO only applies to recvmsg et.al., similar to SNDTIMEO only apply to sendmsg etc. But select/poll only report events, they do not actually send or receive by themselves. Michael, perhaps you can clarify that in the manpages -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
