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Hi folks - I've found myself having do some socket programming in the linux kernel. (yes, yes, I know: have I thought about user space? Yes, that's where I've prototyped my code.

In .NET 2.0, the System.Net.Sockets.Socket class now includes a SendTimeout parameter, so you could easily handle it if you upgraded. If you want to do it in 1.1, then you will probably have to ...

This is because developers can't catch sockets programming errors as they occur -- the traditional tools and techniques introduce too much accidental complexity.