socket read timeout

[Steve Holden]

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>  "Steve Holden" <s..e at hol....eb.com>
> 
> 
>> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>>>  <skip at p....x.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>     hg> My issue with that is the effect on write: I only want a timeout on
>>>>     hg> read ...  but anyway ...
>>>>
>>>> So set a long timeout when you want to write and short timeout when you
> want
>>>> to read.
>>>>
>>> Are sockets full duplex?
>>>
>> Yes. But you have to use non-blocking calls in your application to use
>> them as full-duplex in your code.
> 
> This seems to bear out the scenario I have described elsewhere in this
> thread - I think its caused by the file handlers, but I don't  _know_  it.
> 
>>> I know Ethernet isn't.
>>>
>> Don't know much, then, do you? ;-)
> 
> No not really - I easily get confused by such things as collisions...
> 
> : - )

Right, but collisions are *so* twentieth-century, aren't they. With a 
properly-implemented switched infrastructure Ethernet interfaces can 
transmit and receive at the same time.

regards
  Steve
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