Re: socket(7) error?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:19:38AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

Hi.  There's a bug report from Martin Pool against manpages-dev suggesting
the following paragraph from socket(7) is incorrect:

       SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO
              Specify  the  sending  or  receiving timeouts until reporting an
              error.  They are fixed to a protocol specific setting  in  Linux
              and  cannot  be read or written. Their functionality can be emu-
              lated using alarm(2) or setitimer(2).

He says:

   In fact, these options do seem to be at least partially implemented
   in Linux 2.4.20.  You can at least set and retrieve a value against
   a socket, and it does seem to affect the (complex) network scheduling
   code.

It was correct when the manpage was written, but wasn't updated
later when option was implemented.

-Andi