Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:14:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: read with timeout ?? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0808071813530.11980@zeno.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <489B9D4D.4010009@telenix.org> References: <489B9D4D.4010009@telenix.org>
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need to do a > read from an fd, but I need to associate it with a timeout, on the order of 1 > second, something like that. I had the feeling that there's a function in > FreeBSD's libc that makes that simple, but I forget the function name. If > anyone can remember something like what I'm talking about, I sure would > appreciate a function name. I can figure out how it works, if I could only > dredge up that name. man 2 select -- Nate Eldredge neldredge@math.ucsd.edu
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