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| author | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2014-11-02 10:26:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com> | 2014-11-02 11:03:04 +0000 |
| commit | 49ae8f81448ef47bb566bfd4da9ecefa43e2854f (patch) | |
| tree | fac6e81059e2ca83d3380b80606f51fa6eb2e2d5 /docs/libcurl/opts | |
| parent | 4bef1096892315978ce6d1965111ed514bc32d47 (diff) | |
CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3: Reworked the description to be less confusing
...and corrected a related typo in curl_easy_setopt.3.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3 index 2a7d18d11..2a41b3754 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS.3 @@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ .\" .TH CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options" .SH NAME -CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS \- set connection cache size +CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS \- maximum connection cache size .SH SYNOPSIS #include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS, long amount); .SH DESCRIPTION -Pass a long. The set number will be the persistent connection cache size. The -set \fIamount\fP will be the maximum amount of simultaneously open connections -that libcurl may cache in cache associated with this handle. Default is 5, and -there isn't much point in changing this value unless you are perfectly aware -of how this works and changes libcurl's behaviour. This concerns connections -using any of the protocols that support persistent connections. +Pass a long. The set \fIamount\fP will be the maximum number of simultaneously +open persistent connections that libcurl may cache in the pool associated with +this handle. The default is 5, and there isn't much point in changing this +value unless you are perfectly aware of how this works and changes libcurl's +behaviour. This concerns connections using any of the protocols that support +persistent connections. When reaching the maximum limit, curl closes the oldest one in the cache to prevent increasing the number of open connections. |