Guys i'm facing a problem with this code, the problem is the timeout by timeout i mean the

time it takes the program to tell me if the server is connected or not. If i use my

localhost i get the answer fast, but when i connect to outside my localhost it takes 50sc -

1.5 min to response and the program frezz until it done. HOw can i fix the frezzing, or make

my own timeout, like if still waiting after 50sc, tell me connection failed and stop?

please use codes as help, becouse i would understand it better, thanks for any help i get

PS: USING MAC

#include "mysql.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


// Other Linker Flags: -lmysqlclient -lm -lz 

// just going to input the general details and not the port numbers
struct connection_details
{
    char *server;
    char *user;
    char *password;
    char *database;
};

MYSQL* mysql_connection_setup(struct connection_details mysql_details)
{
    // first of all create a mysql instance and initialize the variables within
    MYSQL *connection = mysql_init(NULL);

    // connect to the database with the details attached.
    if (!mysql_real_connect(connection,mysql_details.server, mysql_details.user, mysql_details.password, mysql_details.database, 0, NULL, 0)) {
        printf("Conection error : %s\n", mysql_error(connection));
        exit(1);
    }
    return connection;
}



MYSQL_RES* mysql_perform_query(MYSQL *connection, char *sql_query)
{
    // send the query to the database
    if (mysql_query(connection, sql_query))
    {
        printf("MySQL query error : %s\n", mysql_error(connection));
        exit(1);
    }

    return mysql_use_result(connection);
}

int main()
{

        MYSQL *conn;        // the connection
    MYSQL_RES *res; // the results
    MYSQL_ROW row;  // the results row (line by line)

    struct connection_details mysqlD;
    mysqlD.server = (char*)"Localhost";  // where the mysql database is
    mysqlD.user =  (char*)"root";      // the root user of mysql   
    mysqlD.password =  (char*)"123456"; // the password of the root user in mysql
    mysqlD.database =  (char*)"test";  // the databse to pick

    // connect to the mysql database
    conn = mysql_connection_setup(mysqlD);

    // assign the results return to the MYSQL_RES pointer
    res = mysql_perform_query(conn, (char*) "SELECT * FROM me");


    printf("MySQL Tables in mysql database:\n");
    while ((row = mysql_fetch_row(res)) !=NULL)
        printf("%s - %s\n", row[0], row[1], row[2]); // <-- Rows

    /* clean up the database result set */
    mysql_free_result(res);
    /* clean up the database link */
    mysql_close(conn);

    return 0;
}