socket read timeout

[Steve Holden]

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.

> I know Ethernet isn't.
> 
Don't know much, then, do you? ;-)

regards
  Steve
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