Hi, > > I am unable to think of a scenerio why ur case is possible > unless some > > serious network congestion has developed and pkts were > lost..i dont see > > how..but the experts might able to give u a better idea. > > You get a SYN, send a SYN ACK, other side sends an ACK, then the other > side's Internet connection goes down due to an extended power > failure. You > will be waiting for it to send the first SSL handshake > message forever. > > Blocking function block until the operation completes, fails, or it is > proven impossible for it to ever succeed.
If SO_KEEPALIVE option is on then it would be just over two hours before an error would be returned IIRC. Mark ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
