Teach rdate to timeout in 10 seconds to avoid blocking forever

with odd or broken networking setups
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Eric Andersen 2003-09-12 05:50:51 +00:00
parent f57a614db9
commit e15138a870

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@ -32,11 +32,17 @@
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include "busybox.h"
static const int RFC_868_BIAS = 2208988800UL;
static void socket_timeout()
{
bb_error_msg_and_die("timeout connecting to time server\n");
}
static time_t askremotedate(const char *host)
{
unsigned long int nett, localt;
@ -46,6 +52,10 @@ static time_t askremotedate(const char *host)
if (getservbyname("time", "tcp") != NULL)
port="time";
/* Add a timeout for dead or non accessable servers */
alarm(10);
signal(SIGALRM, socket_timeout);
fd = xconnect(host, port);
if (safe_read(fd, (void *)&nett, 4) != 4) /* read time from server */