lib, irmd, ipcp: Add socket timeout

This will add a timeout to the socket so that a process won't be
blocked by the actions of the process with which it is communicating
over the socket.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ipcpd/ipcp.c b/src/ipcpd/ipcp.c
index a9f2b77b..784d845a 100644
--- a/src/ipcpd/ipcp.c
+++ b/src/ipcpd/ipcp.c
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ void * ipcp_main_loop(void * o)
 
         char * sock_path;
 
+        struct timeval tv = {(SOCKET_TIMEOUT / 1000),
+                             (SOCKET_TIMEOUT % 1000) * 1000};
+
         if (_ipcp == NULL) {
                 LOG_ERR("Invalid ipcp struct.");
                 return (void *) 1;
@@ -141,6 +144,10 @@ void * ipcp_main_loop(void * o)
                         break;
                 }
 
+                if (setsockopt(lsockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO,
+                               (void *) &tv, sizeof(tv)))
+                        LOG_WARN("Failed to set timeout on socket.");
+
                 pthread_cleanup_push(close_ptr, (void *) &lsockfd);
 
                 count = read(lsockfd, buf, IPCP_MSG_BUF_SIZE);