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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-04-26 15:37:39 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-04-26 15:38:07 +0200
commit2c1b0624ac6ed2695e121bd9581a9eb9762a5c98 (patch)
tree4a5cdfd3438735f6993920957bb8833f88f0ae16 /docs/libcurl
parent107146676e20a00074321b433baaaeb027464871 (diff)
progress callback: can be called more than once per sec
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.310
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 243180d00..88b216c3d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ argument in the opensocket callback set with \fICURLOPT_OPENSOCKETFUNCTION\fP.
Function pointer that should match the \fIcurl_progress_callback\fP prototype
found in \fI<curl/curl.h>\fP. This function gets called by libcurl instead of
its internal equivalent with a frequent interval during operation (roughly
-once per second) no matter if data is being transfered or not. Unknown/unused
-argument values passed to the callback will be set to zero (like if you only
-download data, the upload size will remain 0). Returning a non-zero value from
-this callback will cause libcurl to abort the transfer and return
-\fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP.
+once per second or sooner) no matter if data is being transfered or not.
+Unknown/unused argument values passed to the callback will be set to zero
+(like if you only download data, the upload size will remain 0). Returning a
+non-zero value from this callback will cause libcurl to abort the transfer and
+return \fICURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK\fP.
If you transfer data with the multi interface, this function will not be
called during periods of idleness unless you call the appropriate libcurl