Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Hi,
In the current implementation of the SysLogHandler class from the logging.handlers module, if the specified address does not respond or is unreachable, the createSocket method may block indefinitely. This is problematic because there is no way to set a socket timeout during the connection's creation without overriding the entire createSocket method.

The only way to add timeout is to override the whole createSocket method (if I use super().createSocket() it will get stuck on this line)

my suggestion:

class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
    def __init__(self, address=('localhost', SYSLOG_UDP_PORT),
                 facility=LOG_USER, socktype=None, timeout=None):
        # Existing initialization
        self.timeout = timeout  # New timeout parameter
        self.createSocket()
    def createSocket(self):
        # Existing code ....
        try:
            sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto)
            **if self.timeout:
                     sock.setttimeout(self.timeout)**
            # Existing code ........

Thanks

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-126400: Add TCP socket timeout to SysLogHandler to prevent blocking #126716