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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-06-13 22:38:53 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2013-06-13 22:38:53 +0200
commit9c3e098259b82fe450a04ec38be6747431d59917 (patch)
tree7ed516986b9e29eb49def53bf63c49f269a0031a /docs
parent0feeab7802dd2a6465d22d153d8d36b2cca99b96 (diff)
curl_multi_wait.3: clarify the numfds counter
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-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.34
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
index c266f2569..21ade930b 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ The calling application may pass additional curl_waitfd structures which are
similar to \fIpoll(2)\fP's pollfd structure to be waited on in the same call.
On completion, if \fInumfds\fP is supplied, it will be populated with the
-number of file descriptors on which interesting events occured.
+total number of file descriptors on which interesting events occured. This
+number can include both libcurl internal descriptors as well as descriptors
+provided in \fIextra_fds\fP.
If no extra file descriptors are provided and libcurl has no file descriptor
to offer to wait for, this function will return immediately.