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In the previous coding, timeout would be noticed and reported only when poll() or socket() returned zero (or the equivalent behavior on Windows). Ordinarily that should work well enough, but it seems conceivable that we could get into a state where poll() always returns a nonzero value --- for example, if it is noticing a condition on one of the file descriptors that we do not think is reason to exit the loop. If that happened, we'd be in a busy-wait loop that would fail to terminate even when the timeout expires. We can make this more robust at essentially no cost, by deciding to exit of our own accord if we compute a zero or negative time-remaining-to-wait. Previously the code noted this but just clamped the time-remaining to zero, expecting that we'd detect timeout on the next loop iteration. Back-patch to 9.2. While 9.1 had a version of WaitLatchOrSocket, it was primitive compared to later versions, and did not guarantee reliable detection of timeouts anyway. (Essentially, this is a refinement of commit 3e7fdcffd6f77187, which was back-patched only as far as 9.2.)
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