Timeout with persistent connections

[Marc Lehmann]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 10:23:17AM +1000, Kevin Ryde <user42 at zip.com.au> wrote:
> > 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)?

Depends on the event loop - EV for example prefers the timeout (as does
AnyEvent's pure perl loop). As a result, it's unspecified in AnyEvent.

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