commit b71883e9b0eff7e89081d20204bf33f369cdf735
author Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> Wed Jan 18 16:24:06 2012 -0800
committer Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> Wed Jan 18 16:24:06 2012 -0800
tree bf3ded01d2aae9f06a8e24759eb8fa0635377b2e
parent 5e77b009d0e9dc8c92fe91d0a2d3182e9fff10ae

net: change SetTimeout to SetDeadline

Previously, a timeout (in int64 nanoseconds) applied to a granularity
even smaller than one operation:  a 100 byte read with a 1 second timeout
could take 100 seconds, if the bytes all arrived on the network 1 second
apart.  This was confusing.

Rather than making the timeout granularity be per-Read/Write,
this CL makes callers set an absolute deadline (in time.Time)
after which operations will fail.  This makes it possible to
set deadlines at higher levels, without knowing exactly how
many read/write operations will happen in e.g. reading an HTTP
request.

Fixes #2723

R=r, rsc, dave
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5555048