Re: [Maria-discuss] Why isn't SO_SNDTIMEO used?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:28:35AM -0700, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:

I describe how read/write is done for sockets in mysqld. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122655300932

Can someone explain the history of this code?

IIRC the socket code is mostly rather (read: VERY) old. From some book/discussion somewhere about what was best practice plus some modifications over the years to fix some things. So you're probably right and it probably should use them. -- Stewart Smith