Timeouts

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <49AABC95.8090409 at schokola.de>, Nils Goroll writes:
>Theo,
>
>> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=4641715
>> 
>> Either that or application level support for timeouts.  Given Varnish's 
>> design, this wouldn't be that hard, but still a bit of work.
>
>thank you for your answer. I was hoping that someone might had started work on 
>this, but I understand that this won't be too easy to implement.

They can all be implemented in userland, but at a considerable cost
in systemcalls required.

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