Is there any way to set specific application timeout with SO_KEEPALIVE instead of depending on system default timeout i.e 2hrs in C

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I'm using blocking socket with SSL_read on server side.In some un expected conditions if the client die i need to disconnect that specific client connection on server side with SO_KEEPALIVE.How can i setsockopt with 5 minutes SO_KEEPALIVE ? Thanks in advance.

In some OSes, yes. Which one are you looking for an answer for? — Shawn, Jun 08 '20 at 04:03
`SO_KEEPALIVE` is probably not the option you were looking for (keep-alive is for keeping idle connection alive), `SO_RCVTIMEO` and `SO_SNDTIMEO` are the one you want to set, see [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4182564/105104) — dvhh, Jun 08 '20 at 04:15
is there any other problems do we face if we use SO_RCVTIMEO @dvhh? — Sudhakar K, Jun 08 '20 at 05:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '20 at 06:11

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In Linux, you can adjust the timeout on a socket that's had SO_KEEPALIVE turned on with the TCP_KEEPIDLE option. It takes a time in seconds:

int timeout = 300;
setsockopt(sockfd, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_KEEPIDLE, &timeout, sizeof timeout);

answered Jun 08 '20 at 06:11

Shawn

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Is there any way to set specific application timeout with SO_KEEPALIVE instead of depending on system default timeout i.e 2hrs in C

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