Re: Sockets prog problems/questions; recv stays blocked when other end dies

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From: Keith Bennett
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 00:00

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In article <3lcgsc$2hj1@tiger1.ocs.lsu.edu>,
Clayton O'Neill <coneil@tiger.lsu.edu> wrote:
>I seem to remember the toolkit letting you set the TCP keepalive timeout 
>through the setsockopt function.  Also, I believe thtat in IAK there is 
>something to set keepalive for the entire system.  This might help your 
>problem.

The KEEPALIVE option is fixed at a very long interval, 60 minutes I 
think.  That's fairly useless for our purposes.  I wonder if it's also 
fixed in other implementations of TCP/IP, or just IBM's.?

- Keith

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