Re: How to abort a read from a socket after some time?

[Tomas Volf]

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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