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Note that the pretimeout is the number of seconds before the time
when the timeout will go off. It is not the number of seconds until
the pretimeout. So, for instance, if you set the timeout to 60 seconds
-and the pretimeout to 10 seconds, the pretimout will go of in 50
+and the pretimeout to 10 seconds, the pretimeout will go off in 50
seconds. Setting a pretimeout to zero disables it.
There is also a get function for getting the pretimeout: