receiveTimeout minimum reasonable timeout value?

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, May 15, 2014 08:21:41 PM JR via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 18:15:46 UTC, Charles Hixson via
> 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> > Duration can be specified in nanoseconds, but does it make any
> > sense
> > to have a value of 1 nanosecond?  0?
> > 
> > My desire is to check whether a message is in the queue, and
> > then
> > either move it local to the thread, or continue, depending.
> 
> I use 0.seconds for such oneshot receive attempts. Snippet:
> 
>      while (!halt) {
>          if (++readCounter > messageCheckFrequency) {
>              receiveTimeout(0.seconds,
>                  &_verbose.fun,
>                  &_quiet.fun,
>                  &_unknown.fun
>              );
> 
>              readCounter = 0;
>          }
> 
>          slice = conn.stream.readLine(buf);
>          // ...
>      }
Thanks.  That's what I was hoping to hear.