connecting to non-responding hosts: 1 hr timeout (fwd)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:34:23PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> The alarm signal does not interrupt connect() on Linux (2.2.18 at least).
> It does interrupt connect() with an EINTR error on Solaris though (2.7 at
> least).  I'm not sure about other systems.

You need to disable system call restarting with siginterrupt(),
otherwise it won't work.

(This was new in glibc 2).

gert

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