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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-01-26 23:02:13 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2010-01-26 23:02:13 +0000
commit83e91586ef311072c0727bb97efecfeba4294775 (patch)
tree51a4d5e39ea18130c3f21d6bae16dfb49b62c3fd /docs/libcurl
parentc82a1f95ebec3bd7e9da3df0a36dfaf7c9ae5ff9 (diff)
no need to take precautiono for how things were before 7.16.0 since that
is now a very long time ago
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.312
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
index 9b06a3c08..1fdf3dbfd 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3
@@ -30,14 +30,10 @@ 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
-fd_sets - as otherwise libcurl-internal retries and timeouts may not work as
-you'd think and want.
-
-Starting with libcurl 7.16.0, you should use \fBcurl_multi_timeout\fP to
-figure out how long to wait for action.
+When doing select(), you should use \fBcurl_multi_timeout\fP to figure out how
+long to wait for action. Call \fIcurl_multi_perform\fP even if no activity has
+been seen on the fd_sets after the timeout expires as otherwise internal
+retries and timeouts may not work as you'd think and want.
.SH RETURN VALUE
CURLMcode type, general libcurl multi interface error code. See
\fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP