qnx_osinfo delays 5 seconds before return

QNX USERS QNX2 and QNX4
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Greetings,

When my program tries to get the status of a remote node (call to qnx_osinfo), if the node is down there is a 5 second delay before the call returns. My question is: what is causing this delay and can it be shortened? At first I was thinking it could have something to do with nameloc polling so I tried changing the timeouts for it but it seemed to have no affect.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Dan

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You can change these value with the program netpoll (name from memory) and with arguments to Net. That being said usually this is not a good think to play with this value, you need to know what you are doing.

You can shorten the delay by interrupting the call with a signal, alarm()