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Re: Timeout in milliseconds

From: Alexander Lazic <al-curllibrary_at_none.at>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:07:17 +0200

On Fre 25.08.2006 08:20, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Alexander Lazic wrote:
>
>>I have thought about this issue.
>>
>>To keep a backward compatibility I thought to add:
>
>We only need backward compatibility in the API/ABI and that's basically
>just the curl_easy_setopt() options that set timeouts. So internally we
>can change to counting milliseconds all over. Or rather, we'd need to
>keep seconds + milliseconds if we want to be really backwards
>compatible since 32 bits only can keep around 50 days when counting
>milliseconds but 68 years when counting full seconds.

Are 50 days not far more then any body need ;-)?

Well then i will go the *only* milliseconds way.

regards

Alex
Received on 2006-08-25