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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-07-23 13:35:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-07-29 14:37:08 +0200 |
| commit | b5478a0e033e70478f1c935719bf2e29fda02526 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e4242ca6d7a378e8647671a8eb63d17e29bda3e /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 | |
| parent | db2deba6b4b0e447781ff0e2bdee2aec0a283c97 (diff) | |
curl_easy_pause: on unpause, trigger mulit-socket handling
When the multi-socket API is used, we need the handle to be checked
again when it gets unpaused.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-07/0239.html
Reported-by: Justin Karneges
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 index 25d67bfbb..7debfd842 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_pause.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, 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 @@ -68,6 +68,18 @@ code means something wrong occurred after the new state was set. See the .SH AVAILABILITY This function was added in libcurl 7.18.0. Before this version, there was no explicit support for pausing transfers. +.SH "USAGE WITH THE MULTI-SOCKET INTERFACE" +Before libcurl 7.32.0, when a specific handle was unpaused with this function, +there was no particular forced rechecking or similar of the socket's state, +which made the continuation of the transfer get delayed until next +multi-socket call invoke or even longer. Alternatively, the user could +forcibly call for example curl_multi_socket_all(3) - with a rather hefty +performance penalty. + +Starting in libcurl 7.32.0, unpausing a transfer will schedule a timeout +trigger for that handle 1 millisecond into the future, so that a +curl_multi_socket_action( ... CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT) can be used immediately +afterwards to get the transfer going again as desired. .SH "MEMORY USE" When pausing a read by returning the magic return code from a write callback, the read data is already in libcurl's internal buffers so it'll have to keep |