[Pnet-developers] [bug #18785] Sockets block forever

[Nick Lee]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?18785>

                 Summary: Sockets block forever
                 Project: DotGNU Portable.NET
            Submitted by: nick_lee
            Submitted on: Monday 15/01/07 at 11:00
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

There doesn't seem to be a way to stop sockets blocking indefinitely.

1. Setting the ReceiveTimeout option on the socket has no effect - when you
read it back it is still 0, which means "infinite timeout". Looking at the
source code, there is a message saying that timeouts cannot be set according
to the RFCs (which I'm sure isn't true - all other implementations of sockets
on all platforms and all application frameworks support setting socket
timeouts - besides, even if this was the case, the timeout wouldn't be set to
infinity!).

2. Setting Blocking to false doesn't stop the socket blocking (change
"s.Blocking = true;" in attached code to "s.Blocking = false;".



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Date: Monday 15/01/07 at 11:00  Name: socket.cs  Size: 1kB   By: nick_lee

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=11757>

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