Re: stat() and rpg timeout question

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Tim,

Haven't tried it...  but, maybe a signal would work?  Set up a signal 
handler with the sigaction() API, and then set up a 30 second (or 
whatever) alarm with the alarm() API.  Then call stat().  I'm expecting 
that if stat() does not complete before the alarm is received, that the 
receiption of the SIGALRM signal will cause stat() to end with 
errno=EINTR.

I haven't tried it, though.  It's only a guess at this point, but 
perhaps it's worth trying.



tim wrote:
> Hello all and happy turkey day.
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> I am using the stat() function to check on a file on our windows server. Its
> works great when the server is up, but when the server is down, it basically
> locks the system up.
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> Is there a timeout or something I can do that if the server is down,it wont
> lock up the iseries program  on that statement?
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