Re: svn commit: r1411671 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/serf.c

Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> writes:

>> Author: cmpilato
>
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1411671&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Minor logic simplification.
>>
>> * subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/serf.c
>>   (load_config): Simplify timeout calculations, since we know
>>     DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT is non-negative and we know the
>>     get-time-from-config path errors out on negative values.
>
> Oops -- that logic was there to catch the fact that the default 3600 seconds goes negative in the 32-bit variable it's assigned to.
>
> It's stupid and backwards for at least two reasons.
>
> 1) Bert says on IRC, "The timeout value in neon was used for a
> completely different purpose: In neon: complete request timeout, in
> serf: chunk received timeout. Default http timeout is 30 or 60
> minutes.  A bit long for waiting for a tcp segment."

This value is also affected by the http-timeout setting in
.subversion/servers which means users may have customised it. If it
means something different for serf should we introduce a new constant
and new config setting?

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