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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-02-22 13:44:41 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2019-02-23 23:08:38 +0100
commit47e540df8f32c8f7298ab1bc96b0087b5738c257 (patch)
tree74c313428b6ab1748ea4f45b6eac2bbf5fbcc71d /docs/libcurl/opts
parent42b30ee8f2ed947a288f55ed78c370da10e3dde4 (diff)
examples: remove recursive calls to curl_multi_socket_action
From within the timer callbacks. Recursive is problematic for several reasons. They should still work, but this way the examples and the documentation becomes simpler. I don't think we need to encourage recursive calls. Discussed in #3537 Closes #3601
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.316
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3
index 778a26c61..d926d811d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
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.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2019, 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
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION \- set callback to receive timeout values
#include <curl/curl.h>
int timer_callback(CURLM *multi, /* multi handle */
- long timeout_ms, /* see above */
+ long timeout_ms, /* timeout in number of ms */
void *userp); /* private callback pointer */
CURLMcode curl_multi_setopt(CURLM *handle, CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION, timer_callback);
@@ -40,17 +40,15 @@ Certain features, such as timeouts and retries, require you to call libcurl
even when there is no activity on the file descriptors.
Your callback function \fBtimer_callback\fP should install a non-repeating
-timer with an interval of \fBtimeout_ms\fP. Each time that timer fires, call
+timer with an interval of \fBtimeout_ms\fP. When time that timer fires, call
either \fIcurl_multi_socket_action(3)\fP or \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP,
depending on which interface you use.
-A \fBtimeout_ms\fP value of -1 means you should delete your timer.
+A \fBtimeout_ms\fP value of -1 passed to this callback means you should delete
+the timer. All other values are valid expire times in number of milliseconds.
-A \fBtimeout_ms\fP value of 0 means you should call
-\fIcurl_multi_socket_action(3)\fP or \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP (once) as soon
-as possible.
-
-\fBtimer_callback\fP will only be called when the \fBtimeout_ms\fP changes.
+The \fBtimer_callback\fP will only be called when the timeout expire time is
+changed.
The \fBuserp\fP pointer is set with \fICURLMOPT_TIMERDATA(3)\fP.