libssh2_session_set_read_timeout(3)

libssh2_session_set_read_timeout3

Set timeout for packet read functions

Usage

#include <libssh2.h>
void
libssh2_session_set_read_timeout(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, long timeout);

Overview

Set the timeout in seconds for how long libssh2 packet read function calls may wait until they consider the situation an error and return LIBSSH2_ERROR_TIMEOUT.

By default or if you set the timeout to zero, the timeout will be set to 60 seconds.

Return value

Nothing

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie).

  1. 13–Arch

Availability

Added in 1.10.1

From libssh2 1.11.1-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.