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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/gnus/nnheader.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/gnus/nnheader.el | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el b/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el index 1b6ec636734..7df5ecae205 100644 --- a/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el +++ b/lisp/gnus/nnheader.el @@ -74,7 +74,15 @@ Integer values will in effect be rounded up to the nearest multiple of (defvar nnheader-read-timeout (if (string-match "windows-nt\\|os/2\\|emx\\|cygwin" (symbol-name system-type)) - 1.0 ; why? + ;; http://thread.gmane.org/v9655t3pjo.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de + ;; + ;; IIRC, values lower than 1.0 didn't/don't work on Windows/DOS. + ;; + ;; There should probably be a runtime test to determine the timing + ;; resolution, or a primitive to report it. I don't know off-hand + ;; what's possible. Perhaps better, maybe the Windows/DOS primitive + ;; could round up non-zero timeouts to a minimum of 1.0? + 1.0 0.1) "How long nntp should wait between checking for the end of output. Shorter values mean quicker response, but are more CPU intensive.") |