Re: Socket Options

What would happen if a timeout occurs in the _socket_ level?

I believe a (unix) socket level problem (including remote server closing the connection unexpectedly) results in a Posix SigPIPE. Is you set the default action to ignore: installHandler sigPIPE Ignore Nothing Then it gets converted to an asynchronous exception... that means you have to be extremely careful with your 'catch' clauses so as to ensure that system resources allocated to the socket get cleaned up. Keean.