d</tt></a>
and <a href="#sentdo"><tt>sendto</tt></a> methods never block (the
datagram is just passed to the OS and the call returns
immediately). Therefore, the <tt>settimeout</tt> method has no
effect on them.
</p>

<p class="note">
Note: The old <tt>timeout</tt> method is
deprecated. The name has been changed for sake of uniformity, since
all other method names already contained verbs making their
imperative nature obvious.
</p>

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