Add more info about the role of Timeout for mod_cgi

PR 60404 asks if the Timeout directive is related to
the amount of time to wait for the entire CGI script's
output or only the first byte received.
Checking in mod_cgi.c -> cgi_bucket_read shows a
apr_pollset_poll that should support the latter.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1780907 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
index 431c513a79f0a4c0535c1657cac6fd7b3f9590d2..1fe3743cde4c496c584f3cff1a768563da414530 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/core.xml
@@ -4667,7 +4667,8 @@ certain events before failing a request</description>
       full.</li>
 
       <li>In <module>mod_cgi</module> and <module>mod_cgid</module>,
-      the length of time to wait for output from a CGI script.</li>
+      the length of time to wait for the first byte of the
+      CGI script's output.</li>
 
       <li>In <module>mod_ext_filter</module>, the length of time to
       wait for output from a filtering process.</li>