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[Peter Laursen <peter_laursen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does  "undefined" in practice mean "none" or "random/non-deterministic"
then?

-- Peter

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Peter!
>
> According to Georg, MariaDB Connector/C default is 0, which is
> interpreted as "undefined".
>
> On Oct 28, Peter Laursen wrote:
> > MySQL docs page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-options.
> html
> >
> > *MYSQL_OPT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT (argument type: unsigned int *)*
> > *The connect timeout in seconds.*
> >
> > However I don't find it documented anywhere what the default
> > (client-initiated) connect_timeout will become if not specified in
> > mysql_options(). Or will the client never initiate a timeout in
> connection
> > phase in such case?
> >
> > We are usng MariaDB C-conn 2.31 so the question here on this list is
> > specifically for MariaDB connector.  I didn't find it documented here
> > either. But both MySql and MariaDB have probably inherited this from the
> > old LGPL 3.x connector so this are probably the same in both.
> >
> > Asked a docs request here as well: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?
> id=83600
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
> Chief Architect MariaDB
> and security@xxxxxxxxxxx
>