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From: mjr@decuac.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: timeout on connect(2) call?
Message-ID: <1991Feb06.181726.2735@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 18:17:26 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center
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	Someone a few days ago was asking if there's a way to set a timeout
on a connect(2) call - similarly to the timeouts you can set in a select(2).
Did anyone have an answer to this? Turns out I need to do something similar.
TFM says if you try to connect on a nonblocking socket, you'll get an
EWOULDBLOCK if it would block - but I'd like to be able to specify the time
a little more precisely. Is there an elegant way to do this?

mjr.