[erlang-questions] etimedout from gen_tcp:recv - or definition of infinity

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Stefan Hellkvist <hellkvist@REDACTED>wrote:

> According to the manual pages of gen_tcp all default values for timeout
> values are set to infinity which to me would imply that the connection can
> close and all that and experience other errors but I should at least never
> get a etimedout value unless the length of "infinity" is highly
> exaggerated.


While the Erlang VM will not result in a timeout, the underlying operating
system can send the ETIMEDOUT error (see man 2 recv). So even if you
specifically ask for a poll on the socket, there may still be an underlying
error propagating to you. The most probable reason for this has to do with
something low-level TCP connectivity. I would suggest running tcpdump on
the connection and inspect the data (perhaps in Wireshark).
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