socket read timeout

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "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...

: - )

- Hendrik