Being -gentle with serversReferenceReading from a pipe: -stdinMeasuring one's patience: -timeout

Measuring one's patience: -timeout

This option lets you specify how long, in seconds, Big Brother should wait before giving up on a network request. By default, there is no timeout, so Big Brother is infinitely patient. If you want Big Brother to give up after, say, 5 minutes, you should type

-timeout 300

This time limit concerns a whole network request: that is, it should allow enough time to locate the server, send the request and receive a full answer.

For technical reasons currently beyond my control, this feature is only partially supported in the Windows version. In some cases, Big Brother might still wait longer than allowed by this option.

François Pottier, May 5, 2004

Being -gentle with serversReferenceReading from a pipe: -stdinMeasuring one's patience: -timeout