Timeout with persistent connections

[Kevin Ryde]

schmorp at schmorp.de (Marc Lehmann) writes:
>
> Basically, you stop the time for an extended period
> without telling the event loop (which still thinks it is 6 seconds past
> when new timeouts are created). Since 6 seconds is long enough for a
> timeout to occur, one does occur immediately.

If after a lag there's both timeout and incoming data ready, does it
prefer to read the data (which would reset or discard the timer)?

I suppose usually a timeout is long and a lag is short, so it wouldn't
matter.