[Mono-dev] socket read timeout

[Jacob Gladish]

I ran across a case where mono 1.9 deviates from the MS apis. The following code demonstates that the ReadTimeout propery on a NetworkStream is 0 where the MS .NET apis return -1.

using System;
using System.Net.Sockets;
public class NSTest {
    public static void Main (String[] args) {
        TcpClient clnt = new TcpClient ("www.yahoo.com", 80);
        NetworkStream ns = new NetworkStream (clnt.Client);
        Int32 to = ns.ReadTimeout;
        Console.WriteLine ("Default Timeout: {0}", to);
    }
}

I hit this while trying to save the ReadTimeout value then restoring it later which throws an exception. I followed the code through io-layer/sockets.c. It looks like it just uses get/set sockopt. The manpage for getsockopt indicates that 0 is INFINITE whereas it's -1 in .NET. 

Not sure if this should be patched and at what layer. It seems as though the 0 should be translated to Timeout.Infinite (-1) on the way out. I'm not sure what layer this should be done in. Probably Sockets.cs. Any suggestions?

-jake


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