Re: Message timeouts?

It has been a while since I looked at the code but I thought that socket
errors were checked after returning from poll(). Though I'm not sure if the
information is propagated up to the channels and profiles. If not, it should
be a fairly straight forward change.

--Huston

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William J. Mills" <[email protected]>
To: "Andy Dent" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Beepcore-c-users] Message timeouts?


> An out of sequence reply will cause an error in the core, I think.
>
> Beyond that, no... there is not a mechanism for timeout.  That's
> left to the application level to deal with (profile).
>
> -bill
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:50:07PM +0800, 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
> >
> > "
> > >What if the server just doesn't reply, e.g. due to programming error,
etc?
> > >  This would also cause beepng to hang forever.  Where the client is
part of a
> > >  larger system or long-running program, this can be a problem.  Should
there
> > >  not be some kind of timeout?  Is this intentional in the BEEP
protocol or
> > >  just an implementation issue?
> > "
> > -- 
> >
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