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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 index 21ade930b..a76fba360 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_wait(CURLM *multi_handle, int *numfds); .ad .SH DESCRIPTION -This function polls on all file descriptors used by the curl easy handles -contained in the given multi handle set. It will block until activity is -detected on at least one of the handles or \fItimeout_ms\fP has passed. +\fIcurl_multi_wait(3)\fP polls all file descriptors used by the curl easy +handles contained in the given multi handle set. It will block until activity +is detected on at least one of the handles or \fItimeout_ms\fP has passed. Alternatively, if the multi handle has a pending internal timeout that has a shorter expiry time than \fItimeout_ms\fP, that shorter time will be used instead to make sure timeout accuracy is reasonably kept. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ instead to make sure timeout accuracy is reasonably kept. 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 +On completion, if \fInumfds\fP is non-NULL, it will be populated with the 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. |