socket connect() timeout period

[Anil R. Gangolli]

Is there a way to set the timeout on connect() calls
for a socket?  Using setsockopt() to change SO_RCVTIMEO or
SO_SNDTIMEO doesn't seem to work.

Inspection of socketvar.h on my machine shows there is a field so_timeo
that seems to be for connection time out periods, but it
is not apparently accessible through setsockopt().

--anil.