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storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> I haven't debugged this specifically with emacs, but in other
> programs, it has been necessary to make connect non-blocking with
> fcntl(s,F_SETFL,O_NONBLOCK) and then use the writefds of select to
> know when the connect has completed (at least on GNU/Linux).

Does anybody know whether Linux generates SIGIO when the socket is
ready in this case, or do you absolutely need to poll using select()?

I also recall somebody stating recently that this behavior isn't
really portable? Can somebody confirm in the positive and/or negative.

Jan