Timeout in Sockets

[eric at cls.usask.ca (Eric Norum)]

Christian Haan wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a way to do timed socket operations, eg. to cancel a
> read after a timeout has occured.
> 
> I tried setting the SO_RCVTIMEO socket option but nothing happens.
> 
> The use of the select function gives me linker errors with 'undefined
> reference'
> 
> Has anyone a suggestion how to solve this?
> 

Socket timeouts and select have been part of the RTEMS snapshots  for
quite a while now.  The soon-to-be-released 4.1 will include them.

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Eric Norum                                 eric at cls.usask.ca
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