Update Timeout section, the semantics changed completely

since 1.3 and the caveats on signals not being reset
thankfully no longer apply either.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@641855 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en b/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en
index f37d43c18bc7ceece7531fd6ee63f1de2cb569ae..801a94e8913c43221763e1f75cb114c6bf753808 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.html.en
@@ -3002,26 +3002,29 @@ certain events before failing a request</td></tr>
 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Core</td></tr>
 <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>core</td></tr>
 </table>
-    <p>The <code class="directive">TimeOut</code> directive currently defines
-    the amount of time Apache will wait for three things:</p>
+    <p>The <code class="directive">TimeOut</code> directive defines the length
+    of time Apache will wait for I/O in various circumstances:</p>
 
     <ol>
-      <li>The total amount of time it takes to receive a GET
-      request.</li>
+      <li>When reading data from the client, the length of time to
+      wait for a TCP packet to arrive if the read buffer is
+      empty.</li>
 
-      <li>The amount of time between receipt of TCP packets on a
-      POST or PUT request.</li>
+      <li>When writing data to the client, the length of time to wait
+      for an acknowledgement of a packet if the send buffer is
+      full.</li>
 
-      <li>The amount of time between ACKs on transmissions of TCP
-      packets in responses.</li>
+      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_cgi.html">mod_cgi</a></code>, the length of time to wait for
+      output from a CGI script.</li>
+
+      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ext_filter.html">mod_ext_filter</a></code>, the length of time to
+      wait for output from a filtering process.</li>
+
+      <li>In <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>, the default timeout value if
+      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html#proxytimeout">ProxyTimeout</a></code> is not
+      configured.</li>
     </ol>
 
-    <p>We plan on making these separately configurable at some point
-    down the road. The timer used to default to 1200 before 1.2,
-    but has been lowered to 300 which is still far more than
-    necessary in most situations. It is not set any lower by
-    default because there may still be odd places in the code where
-    the timer is not reset when a packet is sent. </p>
 
 </div>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index 161376ee5b87526b905105742921bc31a3dd2628..8dfe877d0de5a0bb54d27180b1e1844ebc3c3166 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -2975,26 +2975,29 @@ certain events before failing a request</description>
 <contextlist><context>server config</context><context>virtual host</context></contextlist>
 
 <usage>
-    <p>The <directive>TimeOut</directive> directive currently defines
-    the amount of time Apache will wait for three things:</p>
+    <p>The <directive>TimeOut</directive> directive defines the length
+    of time Apache will wait for I/O in various circumstances:</p>
 
     <ol>
-      <li>The total amount of time it takes to receive a GET
-      request.</li>
+      <li>When reading data from the client, the length of time to
+      wait for a TCP packet to arrive if the read buffer is
+      empty.</li>
 
-      <li>The amount of time between receipt of TCP packets on a
-      POST or PUT request.</li>
+      <li>When writing data to the client, the length of time to wait
+      for an acknowledgement of a packet if the send buffer is
+      full.</li>
 
-      <li>The amount of time between ACKs on transmissions of TCP
-      packets in responses.</li>
+      <li>In <module>mod_cgi</module>, the length of time to wait for
+      output from a CGI script.</li>
+
+      <li>In <module>mod_ext_filter</module>, the length of time to
+      wait for output from a filtering process.</li>
+
+      <li>In <module>mod_proxy</module>, the default timeout value if
+      <directive module="mod_proxy">ProxyTimeout</directive> is not
+      configured.</li>
     </ol>
 
-    <p>We plan on making these separately configurable at some point
-    down the road. The timer used to default to 1200 before 1.2,
-    but has been lowered to 300 which is still far more than
-    necessary in most situations. It is not set any lower by
-    default because there may still be odd places in the code where
-    the timer is not reset when a packet is sent. </p>
 </usage>
 </directivesynopsis>