Re: [Chicken-users] Is there a way to get tcp-accept to time-out?

[Ed Watkeys]

On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Julian Morrison wrote:

> > That said, it still bothers me that I can't write this Posix-ly as I 
> > would in C with select(2).
>
> You probably want to do it in C via the FFI then, or even implement a 
> Scheme-ish (select) wrapper so you can copy the Guile code.

An alternative is to write a simple C procedure that can grab the fd 
from the socket, so it can be passed to file-select. I'd rather not 
have to deal with select's blocking and its interaction with Chicken's 
threads at the C level.

Ed