The question is does the tcptimeout option actually change the time it takes for tcpconnect to give up?
I am asking that because I tried to play with the value of that option and it always seems
to take about the same time until the tcpconnect fails no matter what tcptimeout value I set.
Naturally my whole program becomes unresponsive until the timeout occurs.
This is very annoying for the users of my program and the truth is I am puzzled as to how
make the tcptimeout value to be used exce