[Haskell-cafe] controlling timeout for Network.Socket.connect - how?

[Belka]

Thanks, Manlio!

>What system?
ArchLinux (2.6.27)

>Is the timeout the same with a plain C program?
Didn't try yet... ^__^

>> I know that controlling timeout is somehow connected to select(2) 
>Yes.
>The only working method is to set the socket to non blocking mode, and 
>use select (or poll/epoll/kqueue).

Thanks, now I'm confident, that am on the right way! ^__^
I wonder, if *select* really blocks the whole process... or blocks just the
"green" thread, that called it?.. 
It doesn't depend from being safe/unsafe FFI-ed, does it?

Belka
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