On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Rich Gray wrote:

> I like doing retries in terms of determining how long the operation has to
> succeed. Keep trying until that limit is reached. It would seem that the
> outer limit is already available in the form of the -m/--max-time <seconds>
> parameter. The only other requirement then is to keep from beating things
> up if one is experiencing quick failures. A delay parameter is needed.

I've currently considered --max-time as a timeout for each individual attempt,
and if it times out I thought of it as reason to retry.

Should I perhaps instead make --max-time the maximum allowed time including
retries? If not, should I have a separate --retry-max-time ?

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