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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