timeout switch for actsync

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Julien,

> >Reading around a little,
> >I found yet another approach to my problem: Why don't we set a timeout
> >on the network socket when we create it? connect() seems to make use of
> >a timeout, but after that, other reads/writes block indefinitely by
> >default.
> 
> Is it really portable?
> I doubt SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO are defined on all platforms.

I have no experience at all when it comes to porting and portability.
Would anyone happen to know good resources on this topic in general?

> >--- a/lib/network.c
> >+++ b/lib/network.c
> >@@ -435,6 +435,9 @@ network_connect(struct addrinfo *ai, const char *source)
> >      int fd = -1;
> >      int oerrno;
> >      bool success;
> >+    struct timeval connect_timeout;
> >+    connect_timeout.tv_sec = 300;
> >+    connect_timeout.tv_usec = 0;
> [...]
> >+    if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &connect_timeout, sizeof(connect_timeout)) != 0) {
> >+        syswarn("setsockopt SO_RCVTIMEO 300 failed");
> >+        /*return false;<- not needed, as failure would just be like before? */
> >+    }
> 
> Maybe with an "#ifdef SO_RCVTIMEO" so that it is taken into account
> on systems having such a feature?

I think that's a good solution; we're adding a feature for those who can
use it, everybody else keeps getting what they always had. I'm happy and
nobody get's hurt :-)

> >And what should such a compulsory timeout be, 300s like TCP or
> >rather something shorter like 30s?
> 
> We should use DEFAULT_TIMEOUT (set in include/inn/options.h to 300).

agreed.

Florian