Re: Patch to work around flaky pop3 server behaviour

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:20:02PM +0200, Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2001.06.09 00:42 Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > This patch makes pop3 mail retrieval more robust.
> > 
> > It uses a non-blocking read function when retrieving characters from the
> > server, so that the mail retrieval thread doesn't hang when the server
> > fails to send an expected response.
> 
> This patch looks, hm, strange, to me. In particular, i is a local variable,
> and there is no loop to iterate over retry attepmts (the other option is
> that I am blind, or very, very tired).
> 
> I would rather commit another, attached patch. It is simpler and really
> works. The potential disadvantage is that it uses POSIX signals (OTOH, it
> implements commonly used technique so it should be OK).
> 
> Comments?

i like select/poll with timeouts better than signals and much better than
fnctl tricks

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