[ee122] timeouts

[Lisa Fowler]

On 9/22/07, Nescio Nomen <nescionomen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do we have to implement some kind of timeout anywhere in our code?  I don't
> think the specs mention it, and I see that Beej and most other people do not
> implement a time out for example in select().
>
> Also, if we get some kind of error in our server code (eg an accept() fails
> at some point or read() returns -1), we should *always* just print an error
> and terminate with exit(1), and *not*, for example, try to recover and
> continue listening for more clients.  Should we ever attempt a recovery?

As I mentioned in another email today, that's for you to decide and
for us to grade :)

-Lisa