better client handling of server connection timeouts#282
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🤖 Augment PR SummarySummary: This PR adds an explicit timeout for initial server TCP connections and improves how clients report connection timeouts. Changes:
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Use a temporary nonblocking socket and select to limit server connection attempts to DSI_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT instead of allowing connect to block indefinitely. Restore the original socket flags on every handled path, rebuild select state on EINTR retries, and preserve errno from failed connect, select, or getsockopt calls so callers retain the expected failure reason. Report afp_sl_connect failures from the afpcmd startup path with the returned errno text while suppressing duplicate non-verbose log messages.
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this is made up of two distinct changes: introduce an explicit timeout for server connection and enables both afpcmd and kio-afp to report timeout errors accurately, and an overhaul to afpcmd connection attempt verbosity
Use a temporary nonblocking socket and select to limit server connection attempts to DSI_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT instead of allowing connect to block indefinitely.
Restore the original socket flags on every handled path, rebuild select state on EINTR retries, and preserve errno from failed connect, select, or getsockopt calls so callers retain the expected failure reason.
Report afp_sl_connect failures from the afpcmd startup path with the returned errno text while suppressing duplicate non-verbose log messages.
before, the kio-afp client would throw unknown errors, and the afpcmd client would throw nonsense like this for an unreachable server
after the fix we get