Re: [DejaGnu] Enhancement: Provide a mechanism to override the lame 300 second timeout default

[Rob Savoye]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:45:03PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> In remote.exp, the default timeout is set to 300 seconds.  It would
> be nice if there was a default timeout variable that could be set to
> a different value in site.exp or whatever.  That way I don't have to
> edit remote.exp to change the default for slow machines whenever I

  When this was considered before, nobody was sure of whether there
should be a default timeout value (which could be set in site.exp), or
whether it should be a mulitplier, that applies to the current timeout
value. Many of the GDB tests have varying timeouts, and the idea was that
sometimes you *want* a timeout.  I'm undecided as to which behaviour would
be best. Ideas anyone ?

        - rob -