Commit 7b3afc95 authored by Jay Satiro's avatar Jay Satiro Committed by Daniel Stenberg
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opts: Warn CURLOPT_TIMEOUT overrides when set after CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS 

Change CURLOPT_TIMEOUT doc to warn that if CURLOPT_TIMEOUT and
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS are both set whichever one is set last is the one
that will be used.

Prior to this change that behavior was only noted in the
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS doc.
parent 93227ddc

docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_TIMEOUT.3

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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ libcurl to use the SIGALRM signal to timeout system calls. 
In unix-like systems, this might cause signals to be used unless

\fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP is set.



If both \fICURLOPT_TIMEOUT(3)\fP and \fICURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS(3)\fP are set, the

value set last will be used.



Since this puts a hard limit for how long time a request is allowed to take,

it has limited use in dynamic use cases with varying transfer times. You are

then advised to explore \fICURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT(3)\fP,