connection attempt timeout - possible feature?

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2001-Jul-03 23:42:42 -0500 dixit mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org:

: This was talked about on efnet #unixhelp about a week ago while talking
: about why ssh takes such a long time to timeout.  It's a feature of the OS
: and the connect() function call in question, IIRC.
: 
: So in theory one could wrap the call in sshconnect.c (both places) with a
: timer to interrupt connect().  Not sure if there is a cleaner way off
: hand.

You could also do a non-blocking connect(), together with a select()
with timeout.

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