socket.setdefaulttimeout()

[rtilley]

Perhaps this is a dumb question... but here goes. Should a socket client
and a socket server each have different values for
socket.setdefaulttimeout() what happens? Does the one with the shortest
timeout period end first?

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Perhaps this is a dumb question... but here goes. Should a socket client
and a socket server each have different values for
socket.setdefaulttimeout() what happens? Does the one with the shortest
timeout period end first?

the timeout is a local setting, so the each process will time out
according to its own settings.

(but in reality, since sockets are about communication between
two parties, it's quite likely that the other end has already given
up when your side times out.)

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