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This functionality is obsolete. It should not be used in new IDL code.

set_idl_timeout

Syntax

int set_idl_timeout(struct timeval* timeout)  

Description

Call this function to replace the current timeout used by the RPC mechanism with the given timeout.

Parameters

timeout

A pointer to the new timeout value to be used. This parameter has no default.

Return Value

This function returns TRUE if the timeout was replaced. FALSE is returned if the timeout value was NULL or zero.

  IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)