Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!kdp From: kdp@hplabs.UUCP (Ken Poulton) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: how do you time-out on a read? Message-ID: <1625@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 17:09:37 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabs.1625 Posted: Fri Jul 22 17:09:37 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 18:24:13 EDT Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 18 I am considering putting up a Ratfor implementation of MMDF on several machines, including various flavors of Unix. MMDF requires that you be able to time-out on a read request, i.e., that the read returns (with or without data) after some time limit has elapsed. Some perusing of manuals (4.1) has not shed any light on this for me. Does anyone know of a way? The ideal method would allow a call to simply set a time-out interval on an i/o channel, which would be observed until changed, but I'm open to any working solution. Since this needs to runs on both Berkeley and Bell Unices, the less fancy stuff needed, the better. Much thanks, Ken Poulton ...!hplabs!kdp