sockets - recv with time out

[David Bolen]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:

> 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.

Others have answered the specific question, but I just also wanted to
point out that all timeoutsocket itself is doing is exactly what I
suggested - in lieu of a straight recv() it selects() and then
receives.  Although it does temporarily enable non-blocking for calls
like connect() and accept() and exports the ability for the user of
the class to set non-blocking as with standard sockets, its default is
blocking, and it works fine there too.

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