Tweak the noop_io_until_death() timeout and comment it.

[rsync/rsync.git] / io.c

diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index ad5a9c7..08afdd9 100644 (file)
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -807,7 +807,12 @@ void noop_io_until_death(void)
        char buf[1024];
 
        kluge_around_eof = 1;
        char buf[1024];
 
        kluge_around_eof = 1;

-       set_io_timeout(protocol_version >= 31 ? 10 : 1);
+       /* For protocol 31: setting an I/O timeout ensures that if something
+        * inexplicably weird happens, we won't hang around forever.  For older
+        * protocols: we can't tell the other side to die, so we linger a brief
+        * time (to try to give our error messages time to arrive) and then let
+        * the "unexpectedly" closed socket tell them to die. */
+       set_io_timeout(protocol_version >= 31 ? 30 : 1);

 
        while (1)
                read_buf(iobuf.in_fd, buf, sizeof buf);
 
        while (1)
                read_buf(iobuf.in_fd, buf, sizeof buf);