timeout on connect(2) call?

[Marcus J. Ranum]

	Someone a few days ago was asking if there's a way to set a timeout
on a connect(2) call - similarly to the timeouts you can set in a select(2).
Did anyone have an answer to this? Turns out I need to do something similar.
TFM says if you try to connect on a nonblocking socket, you'll get an
EWOULDBLOCK if it would block - but I'd like to be able to specify the time
a little more precisely. Is there an elegant way to do this?

mjr.