Hi In current man page (version 3.11) there's no mention that with timeout set on sockets (SO_RCVTIMEO, SO_SNDTIMEO) read, write,send,... aren't restartable. from include/net/sock.h /* Alas, with timeout socket operations are not restartable. * Compare this to poll(). */ Didier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html