ALARM on windows?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Kalista Christophe wrote:
> I'd like to do the following : A python script listens to port 6664(for
> example). When it gets a connection, it then sets an alarm handler and then
> tries to read from the socket. If it does not get data within 10 seconds, it
> then times out, at which point the alarm handler throws an axception and
> aborts the socket read.

   Use timeoutsocket from http://www.timo-tasi.org/python/

Oleg.
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