[Freeciv-Dev] Re: RFC Metaserver overhaul

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ben Webb wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:46:49PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > Why would it need to block?
> > You need to establish a TCP connection. That takes some time.
> > HTTP is based on TCP.
>
> So set the socket non-blocking before calling connect(2), and then
> select(2) it for writing...

Hmm... yes. Looking at the connect manpage that seems to be possible.
I thought non-blocking only worked for recv & sendto.

Thanks,

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa