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

Melinda Shore melinda.shore at nomountain.net
Thu Feb 20 14:17:18 MST 2014


On 2/20/14 11:47 AM, Wiley, Glen wrote:
> Since we are making this milliseconds does anyone object to making the
> type a uint64_t ?


Well, double-checking my arithmetic my previous response was overly
dramatic:
2^33 milliseconds = 8589934592 milliseconds or about 99 days.  But I
still question whether or not that kind of timeout is really necessary.

Melinda

-- 
Melinda Shore
No Mountain Software
melinda.shore at nomountain.net

"Software longa, hardware brevis."


More information about the getdns-api mailing list