Andreas Raab wrote:
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> " the above should endup with timeout exception ,
>> but following one should hang indefinitely"
> 
> Absolutely not. Read the comment on shouldSignal:
> 
>     "If shouldSignal is enabled the Socket Exceptions
>     ConnectionClosed and ConnectionTimedOut"

And I guess I should read more carefully, too :-) In any case, timeouts 
*are* handled via #timeout: and that makes good sense.

   - A.

> 
> #shouldSignal does NOT cover timeouts; timeouts are set separately, via 
> #timeout:. If you want peek to wait forever you need to use, e.g.,
> 
> | s|
> s:= (SocketStream openConnectionToHostNamed:  'google.com' port: 80) .
> s timeout: 0. "<- no timeouts please"
> s peek.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
> 
>