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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-11-09 07:51:11 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-11-09 07:52:19 +0100
commit63b8fbbbc02634ef6710067a71d6be24e1af9dd3 (patch)
tree52753a34cb6cb88471bc8e10864591ab46c9acd8
parentfa64b0fc4bb8e25fd831db8b9328eeec5cc209c1 (diff)
curl_multi_fdset.3: emphasize curl_multi_timeout
... even when there's no socket to wait for, the timeout can still be very short.
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.39
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
index beef4deb4..de3a92862 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
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-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -58,9 +58,10 @@ libcurl set. When libcurl returns -1 in \fImax_fd\fP, it is because libcurl
currently does something that isn't possible for your application to monitor
with a socket and unfortunately you can then not know exactly when the current
action is completed using select(). You then need to wait a while before you
-proceed and call \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP anyway. How long to wait? We
-suggest 100 milliseconds at least, but you may want to test it out in your own
-particular conditions to find a suitable value.
+proceed and call \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP anyway. How long to wait? Unless
+\fIcurl_multi_timeout(3)\fP gives you a lower number, we suggest 100
+milliseconds or so, but you may want to test it out in your own particular
+conditions to find a suitable value.
When doing select(), you should use \fIcurl_multi_timeout(3)\fP to figure out
how long to wait for action. Call \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP even if no