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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2015-07-29 02:05:32 -0400
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2015-07-29 02:05:32 -0400
commit467309406e725a9756c6a8380582ed3684b90670 (patch)
treef63baaf04c1f890edf870eb73c439e14b7e92444 /docs/libcurl
parentb656715da38137b8a2f420e6e488680fcef4c562 (diff)
libcurl-thread.3: Clarify CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL takes long value 1L
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/libcurl-thread.36
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-thread.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-thread.3
index 070b47a2b..745ce474e 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-thread.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-thread.3
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ You may need to provide one or two functions to allow it to function properly:
\fBSignals.\fP Signals are used for timing out name resolves (during DNS
lookup) - when built without using either the c-ares or threaded resolver
backends. When using multiple threads you should set the
-\fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP option to 1 for all handles. Everything will or might
-work fine except that timeouts are not honored during the DNS lookup - which
-you can work around by building libcurl with c-ares support. c-ares is a
+\fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP option to 1L for all handles. Everything will or
+might work fine except that timeouts are not honored during the DNS lookup -
+which you can work around by building libcurl with c-ares support. c-ares is a
library that provides asynchronous name resolves. On some platforms, libcurl
simply will not function properly multi-threaded unless this option is set.