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Wait for a Socket to Become Writable

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Demonstrates Socket.SelectForWriting, which waits for the socket, or sockets in a socket set, to become writable. It returns 1 if writable, 0 on timeout, or -1 on error.

Background. A timeoutMs of 0 performs a nonblocking poll. This is useful before attempting to send when the peer may be applying flow control.

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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

set socket [new_CkSocket]

#  Connect to the server using TLS.
set bTls 1
set maxWaitMs 5000
set success [CkSocket_Connect $socket "example.com" 5000 $bTls $maxWaitMs]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkSocket_lastErrorText $socket]
    delete_CkSocket $socket
    exit
}

#  Wait up to 5 seconds for the socket (or sockets in a socket set) to become writable.  Returns 1 if
#  writable, 0 on timeout, or -1 on error.
set ready [CkSocket_SelectForWriting $socket 5000]
if {$ready < 0} then {
    puts [CkSocket_lastErrorText $socket]
    delete_CkSocket $socket
    exit
}

if {$ready != 1} then {
    puts "The socket did not become writable before the timeout."
    delete_CkSocket $socket
    exit
}

puts "The socket is ready for writing."

delete_CkSocket $socket