From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to abort a read from a socket after some time?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:52:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Za5XA9a7J35E-JtR@ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <582a8386-75cb-497d-b886-39b92d05bbcf@starynkevitch.net>
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On 2024-01-21 19:57:06 +0100, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> The poll(2) system call (for details see
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/poll.2.html ....) could be preferred,
> and has a simpler timeout (milliseconds). It also can deal with more (or
> few, but numerically bigger) file descriptors than select.
>
> So I suggest using poll, not select.
I did not realize there is (ice-9 poll), seems to be undocumented. I can live
with being linux-only, so poll should work for me. Thanks :)
Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-21 16:00 How to abort a read from a socket after some time? Tomas Volf
2024-01-21 18:34 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-21 18:57 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2024-01-22 11:52 ` Tomas Volf [this message]
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