sockets - recv with time out
Joseph A Knapka
jknapka at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 11 14:39:29 EST 2002
Joseph A Knapka wrote:
>
> Steve Holden wrote:
> >
> > "David Bolen" <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote in message
> > news:uy9j5a0ds.fsf at ctwd0143.fitlinxx.com...
> > > westernsam at hotmail.com (sam) writes:
> > >
> > > > I know generally this should be handled
> > > > better, but seeing as am working with what I'm given is there a way I
> > > > can do a recv with a timeout (to throw an exception, when the timeout
> > > > is reached)? Is this something that can be achieved with non-blocking
> > > > sockets and if so how?
> > >
> > > Typically you'd select() on the socket before doing the recv() - the
> > > select() can have a timeout. Shouldn't be any particular need for
> > > non-blocking sockets.
> > >
> > Erm, how would you do a recv() when your program is blocked waiting for
> > select() to return? Non-blocking sockets are an absolute necessity for this
> > application, and timeoutsocket is the best solution, as Oleg has already
> > said.
>
> Er... how's that? Given the OP's stated requirements,
> what's wrong with:
>
> timeout = 10 # seconds
> readable = select([sock],None,None,timeout)
> if readable:
> data2 = sock.recv()
>
> ????
Well, except for the fact that it's wrong, of course :-)
Maybe
(readable,wr,ex) = select([sock],None,None,timeout)
would work better.
Cheers,
-- Joe
"I should like to close this book by sticking out any part of my neck
which is not yet exposed, and making a few predictions about how the
problem of quantum gravity will in the end be solved."
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