[getdns-api] timeouts specified as milliseconds rather than seconds

[Tim Wicinski]

I would prefer the timeouts as milliseconds, since the timeout itself 
should be a short value.

tim


On 11/11/13 5:38 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The majority of UNIX and Windows API calls of this sort are calibrated 
> in milliseconds. It is simple to reduce the granularity.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy 
> <superuser at gmail.com <mailto:superuser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Something finer-grained than full seconds is highly desirable.  I
>     don't have a preference as to whether we provide a float/double
>     measured in seconds, or a count of milliseconds, or even a struct
>     timeval since that (and struct timespec) are also fairly common.
>
>     -MSK
>
>
>     On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Wiley, Glen <gwiley at verisign.com
>     <mailto:gwiley at verisign.com>> wrote:
>
>         We are implementing timeouts specified as milliseconds rather
>         than seconds (the API calls for seconds) - assuming this isn't
>         going to be a big deal to folks, if so speak up.
>         -- 
>         Glen Wiley
>         KK4SFV
>         Sr. Engineer
>         The Hive, Verisign, Inc.
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