sockets - recv with time out

[David Bolen]

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.

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