https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/select/ Recent content in Select on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:49:03 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/cancellable-select/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:49:03 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2017/cancellable-select/ I spent the last couple of months diving into networking code at work. This led to some interesting discoveries, including how to allow an in-progress network operation to be canceled on demand. This can be an attempt to establish a connection, or a socket read or write. The standard use case is to allow the user to cancel an operation or to allow a clean shutdown when multiple threads are operating on sockets.