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std: Add support for an accept() timeout #13688

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This adds experimental support for timeouts when accepting sockets through
TcpAcceptor::accept. This does not add a separate accept_timeout function,
but rather it adds a set_timeout function instead. This second function is
intended to be used as a hard deadline after which all accepts will never block
and fail immediately.

This idea was derived from Go's SetDeadline() methods. We do not currently have
a robust time abstraction in the standard library, so I opted to have the
argument be a relative time in millseconds into the future. I believe a more
appropriate argument type is an absolute time, but this concept does not exist
yet (this is also why the function is marked #[experimental]).

The native support is built on select(), similarly to connect_timeout(), and the
green support is based on channel select and a timer.

cc #13523

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This is the strategy that I plan to take for the remaining things that can time out such as reads and writes. I want to avoid adding duplicate read_timeout or write_timeout functions, but rather I intend to use the side method of a per-object timeout.

This adds experimental support for timeouts when accepting sockets through
`TcpAcceptor::accept`. This does not add a separate `accept_timeout` function,
but rather it adds a `set_timeout` function instead. This second function is
intended to be used as a hard deadline after which all accepts will never block
and fail immediately.

This idea was derived from Go's SetDeadline() methods. We do not currently have
a robust time abstraction in the standard library, so I opted to have the
argument be a relative time in millseconds into the future. I believe a more
appropriate argument type is an absolute time, but this concept does not exist
yet (this is also why the function is marked #[experimental]).

The native support is built on select(), similarly to connect_timeout(), and the
green support is based on channel select and a timer.

cc rust-lang#13523
bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 24, 2014
This adds experimental support for timeouts when accepting sockets through
`TcpAcceptor::accept`. This does not add a separate `accept_timeout` function,
but rather it adds a `set_timeout` function instead. This second function is
intended to be used as a hard deadline after which all accepts will never block
and fail immediately.

This idea was derived from Go's SetDeadline() methods. We do not currently have
a robust time abstraction in the standard library, so I opted to have the
argument be a relative time in millseconds into the future. I believe a more
appropriate argument type is an absolute time, but this concept does not exist
yet (this is also why the function is marked #[experimental]).

The native support is built on select(), similarly to connect_timeout(), and the
green support is based on channel select and a timer.

cc #13523
@bors bors closed this Apr 24, 2014
@bors bors merged commit e5d3e51 into rust-lang:master Apr 24, 2014
@alexcrichton alexcrichton deleted the accept-timeout branch April 24, 2014 03:26
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