[kaffe] [PATCH] fixing UDP receive timeout (makes mauve not hang

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Timothy Stack wrote:
>>>>- should the socket be permanently non blocking?
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>>>I've CC:ed Tim Stack[1] & Guilhem Lavaux on that one.
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>>Socket should be blocking by default. It is necessary for the other 
>>syscalls. BTW, you may be interested by the jthread_set_blocking 
>>function (available for both jthreads and pthreads for external usage) 
>>which sets the blocking state of the fd (virtually for jthreads and 
>>natively for pthreads).
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> Is there a reason we don't just use the SO_RCVTIMEO?
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I think we may use it only if the feature is available. I have already 
seen that not so much systems support it. :/ So maybe we should 
implement the two mechanism...

Cheers,

Guilhem.

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>>Cheers,
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>>Guilhem Lavaux.
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> tim
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