I am nearly finished with a new sockets module that is both non-blocking and asynchronous, I will probably re-write all of my plugins that use sockets, and this include, once its complete. But yes, a lower value would be more appropriate in socket_change() since these are blocking sockets and we want an immediate response. I didn't use the default of 100000 by-design, it was just overlooked. Using a timeout of 0 (not null) will make select return immediately so I will try that, if it gives any problems I will use 1. Thanks again buddy.
The function used for socket_change() within the module is select()
http://linux.die.net/man/2/select
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timeout is an upper bound on the amount of time elapsed before select() returns.
It may be zero, causing select() to return immediately. (This is useful for polling.)
If timeout is NULL (no timeout), select() can block indefinitely.