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From: gangolli@wolvesden.Stanford.EDU (Anil R. Gangolli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: socket connect() timeout period
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Date: 17 Aug 89 17:51:44 GMT
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Is there a way to set the timeout on connect() calls
for a socket?  Using setsockopt() to change SO_RCVTIMEO or
SO_SNDTIMEO doesn't seem to work.

Inspection of socketvar.h on my machine shows there is a field so_timeo
that seems to be for connection time out periods, but it
is not apparently accessible through setsockopt().

--anil.