UDP Socket Set Timeout

Question

I am trying to set a 100ms timeout on a UDP Socket. I am using C. I have posted relavent pieces of my code below. I am not sure why this is not timing out, but just hangs

Answer 1

The SO_RCVTIMEO option expects a struct timeval defined in sys/time.h, not an integer like you're passing to it. The timeval struct has as field for seconds and a field for microseconds. To set the timeout to 100ms, the following should do the trick:

struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 0;
tv.tv_usec = 100000;
if (setsockopt(rcv_sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO,&tv,sizeof(tv)) < 0) {
    perror("Error");
}