From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2011-08-01T22:15:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38651] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #5101][Open] allow optional timeout for TCPSocket.new

2011/7/30 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>:

> I expected such code in client socket library because
> socket library doesn't provide timeout feature (and Timeout exception class).

On second thought, Errno::ETIMEDOUT can be a candidate.

> I remember multiple IP addresses issue.
> The behavior of timeout is not clear if two or more IP addresses are
> given for a hostname.

This is still a problem.
-- 
Tanaka Akira