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From: satish@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (satish paranjpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Timeout with write
Message-ID: <3298@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 15:58:34 GMT
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory N.Y.
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Hi !
  I have a question regarding the write system call. I have a client
and a server model implemeted on Sun 4s . The server and the client 
communicate with write and read to the sockets after a connection
is established. My program works fine. The question I have is--
What happens if the client executes a write and for some reason
(say heavy traffic on the net) it takes a long time to reach the
server. Does the write system call report any timeout errors ?
Right now I schedule an alarm and catch it to determine that
the net is busy and the write has to be tried again . Is there a
better way of doing it ?
Please reply by email. 
Thanks

Satish. 

satish@lamont.columbia.edu