mozilla/rust — pull request #13814 by alexcrichton (2014-04-28 04:15:42+00:00)
Title: Read/write I/O timeouts

This PR is an implementation of `set_timeout`, `set_read_timeout`, and `set_write_timeout` for TCP, UDP, and Unix streams (named pipes on windows).

The implementation was much more difficult than I imagined it was going to be throughout the 9 categories ({tcp, udp, unix} x {windows, unix, green}). The major snag is that libuv doesn't support canceling writes, so I chose to word the `set_write_timeout` documentation in such a way that it accomadates the behavior seen when running around with libgreen.

The first commit is from #13751, and I just included it to pre-emptively avoid rebase conflicts. The following commits are relevant to this PR. The tests aren't quite passing on windows just yet, but I should have those working by tomorrow once my VM is back up and running. For now, I wanted to see what others' thoughts were on this strategy.