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   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   David Schwartz  wrote:   
   > A blocking 'send' call will block until the operation either   
   > succeeds or fails. If you want to use blocking socket operations and   
   > don't want to block forever, you need implement some kind of   
   > timeout. A common way is to have another thread periodically check   
   > for connections that have not had activity for sufficiently long and   
   > issue a 'shutdown' on their sockets. This will cause the 'send' to   
   > unblock.   
      
   Well...  perhaps many, perhaps most stacks, but I'm still leary, even   
   this day, on counting on such threaded behaviour in a sockets   
   implementation.   
      
   rick jones   
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