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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-04-15 15:05:12 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2004-04-15 15:05:12 +0000
commit5de447b0cb6736f64ca43ad441a35d605a231afc (patch)
tree1a277a07f8a4c3daa869406697a450a3ebf00c36
parent5dbaced4a2a69fd65dc8bbf5a93149de7ef09865 (diff)
clarified that select() timeouts should always remain rather short
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.38
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
index 2e9fd8fed..2faaad298 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "3 May 2002" "libcurl 7.9.5" "libcurl Manual"
+.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "15 Apr 2004" "libcurl 7.9.5" "libcurl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl_multi_fdset - extracts file descriptor information from a multi handle
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ of them are ready to be read from or written to.
NOTE that once this call is made, you must not remove the sets you point to,
as libcurl will need to be able to read them. It needs them after select()
calls, to know if certain sockets are readable or writable.
+
+You should also be aware that when doing select(), you should consider using a
+rather small (single-digit number of seconds) timeout and call
+\fIcurl_multi_perform\fP regularly - even if no activity has been seen on the
+fd_sets - as otherwise libcurl-internal retries and timeouts may not work as
+you'd think.
.SH RETURN VALUE
CURLMcode type, general libcurl multi interface error code. See
\fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP