[Mono-devel-list] Socket Send/ReceiveTimeouts

[Matthias Sessler]

Hi

> I'm sorry, is it correct that this code closes the socket
> on send or receive timeout? If so I don't think that's
> right. I believe that on systems that do support setting of
> SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO the way to go is obviously to
> employ these options. On systems that do not support these
> I would call select or poll with appropriate timeout just
> before send/recv.
Arg. You are right and i am wrong, the ms .net cli leaves the socket 
open even after a timeout.

At least this would provide a fallback for systems witch don't 
implement SO_RCVTIMEO as most application would simply close the socket 
after a timeout.

The second option would be to only abort the thread which is waiting 
for the send/receive. Is this possible with mono? The ms framework 
would abort the thread after send/receive method would return.

Does anyone know how java does this on linux?

regards
/matthias