Re: Message timeouts?

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Andy Dent wrote:
> Does beepcore-c handle the issue of message timeouts, ie: if a client 
> receiving regular messages has stopped responding or if a sloppily 
> written client never responds?
> 
> I can't find any discussion of it other than a message by Helen Ryan 
> back in January which didn't seem to get a response

As I understand it, beepcore-c has no timers, so it is up to the
application to decide what to do if its peer stops responding.  I think
this is probably just as well, if you are writing an asynchronous
(nonblocking) sort of application, which beepcore-c seems fairly well
suited for.  I suppose if you want to have a simple app using blocking
calls it might get a bit annoying, as you'd have to set alarms/timers to
wake you up if that blocking call doesn't return in a reasonable amount of
time.

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