Timeout
A policy on how much time to spend on a task before giving up. When a task times out, it is left in an unspecified state and should be abandoned. For example, if reading from a source times out, that source should be closed and the read should be retried later. If writing to a sink times out, the same rules apply: close the sink and retry later.
Timeouts and Deadlines
This class offers two complementary controls to define a timeout policy.
Timeouts specify the maximum time to wait for a single operation to complete. Timeouts are typically used to detect problems like network partitions. For example, if a remote peer doesn't return any data for ten seconds, we may assume that the peer is unavailable.
Deadlines specify the maximum time to spend on a job, composed of one or more operations. Use deadlines to set an upper bound on the time invested on a job. For example, a battery-conscious app may limit how much time it spends pre-loading content.