Question about socket timeouts

[Davide Italiano]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:03 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Monday, August 26, 2013 3:05:06 pm John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Monday, August 26, 2013 2:23:44 pm Davide Italiano wrote:
>> > Please consider the following patch:
>> > http://people.freebsd.org/~davide/review/socket_timeout.diff
>> > I've tested it and it works OK. I got a timeout which is ~= 25ms using
>> > the testcase provided by the user.
>> > The only doubt I have is about the range check, I've changed a bit
>> > because the 'integer' part of sbintime_t fits in 32-bits, but I'm not
>> > sure it's the best way of doing this.
>>
>> Nice!  Bruce actually wants me to adjust the range check a bit (which will
>> fit in well with your changes I think).  Please let me get that fix in
>> (so it can be part of the future MFC) and then you can commit this.  Thanks!
>>
>> Actually, I think you still need to patch the sogetopt() case to work correctly
>> (it is still doing a manual conversion from 'val' to a timeval assuming it is
>> in 'hz' units).
>
> I'm done with my range check changes, please move forward with your change
> (though make sure you fix the sogetsockopt() case please).
>
> --
> John Baldwin

For the archives, this should be fixed in r255138.

Thanks to both,

-- 
Davide

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