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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-04-25 08:55:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2005-04-25 08:55:55 +0000 |
| commit | 6e1633a6c5f88479998a1e0675818c9d97d9ed90 (patch) | |
| tree | b17a003c0a17fa6251595edde38255505c5a24df /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | a8ff0a21bf88f1cbfd6fa38683876dc95a96f1f3 (diff) | |
be specific about what max_fd contains after a call
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 index 222c2f2d8..0efc68ab1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" $Id$ .\" -.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "18 Apr 2005" "libcurl 7.9.5" "libcurl Manual" +.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "25 Apr 2005" "libcurl 7.9.5" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_multi_fdset - extracts file descriptor information from a multi handle .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ but be sure to FD_ZERO them before calling this function as otherwise remove any other. The \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP function should be called as soon as one of them are ready to be read from or written to. +If no file descriptors are set by libcurl, \fImax_fd\fP will contain -1 when +this function returns. Otherwise it will contain the higher descriptor number +libcurl set. + You should also be aware that when doing select(), you should consider using a rather small (single-digit number of seconds) timeout and call \fIcurl_multi_perform\fP regularly - even if no activity has been seen on the |