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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-01-19 22:58:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2013-01-19 22:58:02 +0100 |
| commit | d90b9aee64a186c549689ed54113dca10ded26c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bdda949dfa2669133036569a2169a4444665d08 /docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 | |
| parent | ece8681a60ce0b1794af3bdc5e2233abf2903e27 (diff) | |
curl_easy_recv.3: document return codes
Reported by: Craig Davison
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0234.html
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 index 1ede58944..0de6037ba 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_recv.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008, 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 @@ -59,8 +59,13 @@ On success, returns \fBCURLE_OK\fP, stores the received data into On failure, returns the appropriate error code. -If there is no data to read, the function returns \fBCURLE_AGAIN\fP. Use -your operating system facilities to wait until the data is ready, and retry. +If there is no data to read, the function returns \fBCURLE_AGAIN\fP. Use your +operating system facilities to wait until the data is ready, and retry. + +Reading exactly 0 bytes would indicate a closed connection. + +If there's no socket available to use from the previous transfer, this function +returns CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL. .SH EXAMPLE See \fBsendrecv.c\fP in \fBdocs/examples\fP directory for usage example. .SH "SEE ALSO" |