On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Oliver Deakin <oliver.dea...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> Wouldn't it be more appropriate to just relax the constraints on >> hysock_connect_with_timeout? >> > Sure, what would you suggest? I believe the reason the portlib function was > implemented this way (only a short 100ms timeout maximum) is because on some > platforms it is not possible to interrupt blocking calls, so once you go > into the block there is no way to stop it for, for example, VM shutdown. > We should just put the loop in the platform-specific port! Behavior on good platforms shouldn't suffer just so we can support crappy platforms!
