[erlang-questions] UDP active socket timeout

[Sean Cribbs]

UDP is a connection-less datagram protocol, so there's no timeout inherent
in the protocol.  However, you may have timeouts on:

1) receiving a datagram (nothing arrived)
2) sending a datagram (things went very badly)

However, those are timeouts internal to Erlang, from your process to the
socket driver. If you are using the {active, true} option (which it sounds
like you are), you should use an 'after' clause in your 'receive' to
implement timeouts, or use the trailing timeout in the return tuple of a
gen_server/gen_fsm callback.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Bogdan Andu <bog495@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How can be detected a timeout on an active UDP socket?
>
> controlling process receives the message:
> {udp, Socket, Host, Port, Bin}
>
> and after a process is spawned to handle that data:
> spawn(fun() -> handle_pckt(Socket, Host, Port, Bin) end),
>
> Q: how the spawned or controlling  process is able to detect
> that a timeout on this UDP socket occurred ?
>
> documentations does not mention anything about timeout on active sockets
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Bogdan
>
>
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