# Equivalent of setting "receive timeout" value on ZMQ socket

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-setting-receive-timeout-value-on-zmq-socket/27552
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-setting-receive-timeout-value-on-zmq-socket/27552 "2019-08-14T20:15:53Z")
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### Author: ![Josiah\_Slack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/josiah_slack/32/8319_2.png) [@Josiah\_Slack](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Josiah_Slack)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 8:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-setting-receive-timeout-value-on-zmq-socket/27552/1 "2019-08-14T20:15:53Z")

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I’m wondering if there’s an idiomatic way of setting a timeout for recv(socket)?