Re: 2.2.1, TCP connect failure never times out

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 20:17:47 +0000 (GMT)

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> I first noticed this because Gnus inside XEmacs was trying to make
> essentially this same connection, hanging XEmacs entirely as a result.
>
> It seems to be generally the case for me, that attempts to contact
> unavailable hosts w/TCP just don't ever give up and return ETIMEDOUT.
>
> Is my experience unusual? Or is something seriously wrong?

Its about 15 minutes it gives up. The timeouts are non standards
specified. Applications should be using alarms if they care

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