From 8499542b553b5184adbb839240874c5551dbb1ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Van Loon <bbb@bbbart.be>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:47:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added tcp socket connection timeout

---
 musicpd.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/musicpd.py b/musicpd.py
index aae85a5..e8f7863 100644
--- a/musicpd.py
+++ b/musicpd.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ SUCCESS = "OK"
 NEXT = "list_OK"
 VERSION = '0.4.4'
 
+CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 5  # seconds before a tcp connection attempt times out
 
 def iterator_wrapper(func):
     """Decorator handling iterate option"""
@@ -556,7 +557,9 @@ class MPDClient:
             sock = None
             try:
                 sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
+                sock.settimeout(CONNECTION_TIMEOUT)
                 sock.connect(sa)
+                sock.settimeout(None)
                 return sock
             except socket.error as socket_err:
                 err = socket_err
-- 
2.39.5