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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-05-13 20:48:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2008-05-13 20:48:48 +0000 |
| commit | 46dbd9461af66b9aa11a7f9e776979df6be028ac (patch) | |
| tree | 3bfc49e25d58aec0342727b02ba904c7ea6c7e0e /ares_init.3 | |
| parent | 76d91c21ad6248518e37eb6dd6b52fb7ab8a7fbd (diff) | |
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- Introducing millisecond resolution support for the timeout option. See
ares_init_options()'s ARES_OPT_TIMEOUTMS.
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ares_init.3 b/ares_init.3 index 026d8da..428cb03 100644 --- a/ares_init.3 +++ b/ares_init.3 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" .\" Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. +.\" Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by Daniel Stenberg .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this .\" software and its documentation for any purpose and without @@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ .\" this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" .\" without express or implied warranty. .\" -.TH ARES_INIT 3 "7 December 2004" +.TH ARES_INIT 3 "13 May 2008" .SH NAME ares_init, ares_init_options \- Initialize a resolver channel .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -49,10 +50,22 @@ description of possible flag values. .B ARES_OPT_TIMEOUT .B int \fItimeout\fP; .br -The number of seconds each name server is given to respond to a query -on the first try. (After the first try, the timeout algorithm becomes -more complicated, but scales linearly with the value of -\fItimeout\fP.) The default is five seconds. +The number of seconds each name server is given to respond to a query on the +first try. (After the first try, the timeout algorithm becomes more +complicated, but scales linearly with the value of \fItimeout\fP.) The +default is five seconds. This option is being deprecated by +\fIARES_OPT_TIMEOUTMS\fP starting in c-ares 1.5.2. +.TP 18 +.B ARES_OPT_TIMEOUTMS +.B int \fItimeout\fP; +.br +The number of milliseconds each name server is given to respond to a query on +the first try. (After the first try, the timeout algorithm becomes more +complicated, but scales linearly with the value of \fItimeout\fP.) The +default is five seconds. Note that this option is specified with the same +struct field as the former \fIARES_OPT_TIMEOUT\fP, it is but the option bits +that tell c-ares how to interpret the number. This option was added in c-ares +1.5.2. .TP 18 .B ARES_OPT_TRIES .B int \fItries\fP; |