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From: rfl@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Bob Loewenstein)
Subject: TCPRcv call in MacTCP
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Organization: U of Chicago - Astronomy & Astrophysics
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 90 02:49:33 GMT


I have a question I hope someone can answer concerning an asynchronous TCPRcv
call in MacTCP. I have a connection and start a TCPRcv with a Command Timeout of
0 (infinite).  How do I abort this call in progress? The only way I can see is
for the sending machine to close the connection.

When the user quits the program, I would like to close the connection, but
can't since the command is still in progress.

I temporarily have my code working where the timeout is much shorter, say
a few seconds, and a watchdog reconnects when the call completes. If
I want to close the connection, my abort call waits until the call
completes on the short timeout and all works ok. However, there must
be a way to abort on an infinite timeout.