Setting Socket Timeout?

Question

Using sockets, I am not sure how to set the timeout?

thanks

int sock, connected, bytes_recieved;
char send_data [128] , recv_data[128];       
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Answer 1

you can use:

fd_set fd;
timeval tv;
FD_ZERO(&fd);
FD_SET(sock, &fd);
tv.tv_sec = time_out(second);
tv.tv_usec = 0;

to set timeout for sending,receiving data.