Hello,

I want to be able to time out in a read-sequence call on a stream I've
constructed from a socket fd.  I've taken a quick look at the
buffer-input-wait-default function from CLX, and I can probably adapt
something like that to make sure there's input before calling
read-sequence.  However, I'd prefer to be able to time out even if
there's not enough data come over the wire to satisfy the
read-sequence (specifically, if the server hangs up in the middle of
sending a message).

I suspect I can write an around method for the appropriate stream
function that read-sequence calls to fill the sequence.  Before I
investigate that approach, I want to see if anyone else has done
something similar that I can leverage off of.

		- Pat
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