Interrupting passive socket recv

[Sean Hinde]

Hmm, good point. You are right, the connections will sit in the listen queue
until grabbed by accept. The only issue would be if the queue filled up...
unlikely though possible under heavy load (There is a parameter {backlog, B}
to listen(), defaulted to 5)

It's still pretty horrible to kill or have to timeout all the time though.
What do you set your timeout to out of interest?

> I still don't like the timeout solution that I have to use in 
> my own servers,
> but I don't understand in which case you would loose any 
> connection. You
> do not *have* to call accept() all the time, it is what the 
> socket backlog is
> here for, isn't it?
> 
> 

- Sean



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