socket read timeout

[Steve Holden]

Bryan Olson wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Hmmm... I'm missing something. Suppose I have one thread (or
> process) reading from a blocking-mode socket while another is
> writing to it? What stops it from being full duplex?
> 
> 
Nothing, I guess. I just didn't consider threaded code ...

regards
  Steve
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