I have a function that runs in C. I would like for it to timeout, or at least be non blocking. Is there a way to do that without running it as a thread?
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I have a function that runs in C. I would like for it to timeout, or at least be non blocking. Is there a way to do that without running it as a thread?
select()(or one of its platform-specific equivalents) is what should be used if you don’t know that there is input available from a blocking file or socket, and want to continue if there isn’t.