Re: why is the alarm thread used instead of SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Vladimir Shebordaev <vladimir.shebordaev@stripped> [09/08/20 02:19]:
> I'm not quite deep into the history but as far as I can see vio layer
> does honor those socket options on the platforms they are implemented
> and expected to be working. Btw, POSIX does not require thes options
> to be settable.

Right, but we don't need to rely on them either. poll/select
should do fine on all platforms we support nowadays.

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