From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@extremeeng.com>
Cc: "'Gary Thomas'" <gthomas@redhat.com>, "'eCos Discussion'" <ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Cancelling a Blocking network call
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:34:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B819E81.7502904F@redhat.com>
References: <005801c129c6$78d06030$090110ac@TRENT>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00682.html

"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> 
> Let's say I call write () on a socket, and the other end of the
> connection hangs.  I might want to cancel that call.  If the write ()
> was done in another thread then yet another thread might be able to
> cancel the write () call.

You could include the fileio and posix packages and use signals.

Jifl
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