next_with_timeout() with zero timeout waits indefinitely

[wxifze]

The following code is expected to poll in a tight loop, instead it waits indefinitely for every packet (confirmed with strace(1)):

use pnet::{transport::*, packet::ip::*};
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    let (_, mut tx) = transport_channel(
        4096, TransportChannelType::Layer4(
            TransportProtocol::Ipv4(
                IpNextHeaderProtocols::Icmp
    ))).unwrap();
    loop {
        let _ = icmp_packet_iter(&mut tx).next_with_timeout(Duration::new(0, 0));
    }
}

I suspect this is because socket option SO_RCVTIMEO interprets zero timeout as infinite. From socket(7) man:

If the timeout is set to zero (the default) then the operation will never timeout.

The problem can be solved by specifying timeout as the smallest non-zero value (1000ns since timeval.tv_usec is in microseconds):

use pnet::{transport::*, packet::ip::*};
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    let (_, mut tx) = transport_channel(
        4096, TransportChannelType::Layer4(
            TransportProtocol::Ipv4(
                IpNextHeaderProtocols::Icmp
    ))).unwrap();
    loop {
        let _ = icmp_packet_iter(&mut tx).next_with_timeout(Duration::new(0, 1000));
    }
}

Either values from 0 to 999ns should be automatically converted to 1us or the documentation should be updated to mention this unexpected behavior. Since there is already a blocking method next() I prefer the former.

[zszep]

@wxifze
Did you ever solve this problem?