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

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

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>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> 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
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