[PD] TCP weirdness ? ...

[oliver]

Christof Ressi wrote:
> hi, check this out: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/378
> 
> TL;DR: [connect( tries to establish a connection until it times out. currently, the default timeout is system dependend, but it would be nice if we could also set it manually. and yes, the default timeout should be a bit shorter ;-). it's easy to implement, I wanted to make a PR but forgot...

thanks for the insight !

yeah, i figured it was related to the OS.

anyway, up until a settable timeout is available, i can live with that 
situation and try to avoid to connect to ports, that aren't open ;-)

best

oliver