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Re: Why alter curl_multi_timeout() return value?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:42:34 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 1 May 2011, Paul J. Lucas wrote:

> The fopen.c example code contains:
>
> Why is tv_sec clipped to 1 second? Why isn't the value returned by
> curl_multi_timeout() used as-is (after dividing by 1000)?
>
> Assuming there's a good reason for the above, then is there a case when you
> would NOT clip the value to 1 second? What case is that?

I believe we once upon the time may have had a good reason for it, but unless
you want to do some updates or local logic of your own, like a progress meter
or similar, there should be no need to cap the timeout value libcurl returns.

We should probably remove that logic from the examples that do it.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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