libssh2_session_set_timeout(3)

libssh2_session_set_timeout3

Set timeout for blocking functions

Usage

#include <libssh2.h>
void
libssh2_session_set_timeout(LIBSSH2_SESSION *session, long timeout);

Overview

Set the timeout in milliseconds for how long a blocking the libssh2 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, libssh2 has no timeout for blocking functions.

Return value

Nothing

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 7–12
  2. 13–Arch

Availability

Added in 1.2.9

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