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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-03-27 23:50:36 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2016-03-27 23:50:36 +0200
commit5a9ea4b18c1de9a67dd45598ebb584523b875e01 (patch)
tree1c9217e513c0f7d43417610a881924509c48735f /docs/libcurl/opts
parente0b216e38f12cf4cc17e87683121fd416913e5bd (diff)
CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.3: describe the 'what' argument
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.318
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.3
index d5f2f7558..56e78ff17 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, 2016, 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
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" *
.\" **************************************************************************
.\"
-.TH CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION 3 "3 Nov 2014" "libcurl 7.39.0" "curl_multi_setopt options"
+.TH CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION 3 "3 Nov 2016" "libcurl 7.39.0" "curl_multi_setopt options"
.SH NAME
CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION \- callback informed about what to wait for
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION \- callback informed about what to wait for
int socket_callback(CURL *easy, /* easy handle */
curl_socket_t s, /* socket */
- int what, /* see above */
+ int what, /* describes the socket */
void *userp, /* private callback pointer */
void *socketp); /* private socket pointer */
@@ -46,6 +46,18 @@ If the given callback pointer is NULL, no callback will be called. Set the
callback's \fBuserp\fP argument with \fICURLMOPT_SOCKETDATA(3)\fP. See
\fIcurl_multi_socket_action(3)\fP for more details on how the callback is used
and should work.
+
+The \fBwhat\fP parameter informs the callback on the status of the given
+socket. It can hold one of these values:
+.IP CURL_POLL_IN
+Wait for incoming data. For the socket to become readable.
+.IP CURL_POLL_OUT
+Wait for outgoing data. For the socket to become writable.
+.IP CURL_POLL_INOUT
+Wait for incoming abd outgoing data. For the socket to become readable or
+writable.
+.IP CURL_POLL_REMOVE
+The specified socket/file descriptor is no longer used by libcurl.
.SH DEFAULT
NULL (no callback)
.SH PROTOCOLS