Setting time out for connect() function tcp socket programming in C breaks recv()

Question

In my program If the server is not reachable the connect function take too much time. So i try to give time out to connect using select(). Now the problem is that when i try to

Answer 1

The socket should be set to blocking mode again before calling recv().

fcntl(sockfd, F_SETFL, fcntl(sockfd, F_GETFL, 0) & ~O_NONBLOCK);