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Easy · networking · Quant Developer interview question · networking, sockets, so-rcvtimeo, timeval, timeout, posix, eagain
In quantitative finance, market data receivers must handle network interruptions gracefully to prevent stale data or missed trading opportunities. Configuring a socket receive timeout (SO_RCVTIMEO) prevents an application from blocking indefinitely if a data source goes silent. This task involves correctly converting a timeout value from milliseconds into the struct timeval required by the underlying socket API, a common source of bugs in low-level network programming. Task Implement the functi