[ILUG] tough programming q's

[Kenn Humborg]

kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> programming question: i'm looking for a blocking read/recv call that
> times out.  it would be best if it didn't involve signals.  ideas?
> also, i'm looking for this for efficiency reasons.  if i did it
> with a select and then a read it will involve more data copying
> under linux, yes?  what about other unicies?  it would be nice if the
> solution was portable (possibly expressed using ACE).

<Asbestos on>

Use VMS.  $QIOW(..., IO$_READVBLK|IO$M_TIMEOUT, ..., buf, bytes, timeout, ...).

Then write a wrapper layer that marshals all your
blocking I/O over to the VMS machine.

Ahh, those were the days...

What?  You mean you don't have a VMS box??? :-)

<Asbestos still on>

Kenn