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.
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Jay Satiro 2014-12-15 14:42:21 -05:00 committed by Daniel Stenberg
parent 93227ddca5
commit 7b3afc952f

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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,