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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE-NOTES | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 15 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ Changelog Daniel (5 December 2006) +- Sh Diao reported that CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY doesn't work, and indeed, there is + no code present in the library that receives the option. Since it was not + possible to use, we know that no current users exist and thus we simply + removed it from the docs and made the code always use the default path of + the code. + - Jared Lundell filed bug report #1604956 (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1604956) which identified setting CURLOPT_MAXCONNECTS to zero caused libcurl to SIGSEGV. Starting now, libcurl diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 4a5f34439..9d8d554b1 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.16.1 This release includes the following changes: o Support for SCP and SFTP were added + o CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY is now deprecated This release includes the following bugfixes: diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 8c172ca90..ca4c8af65 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -1092,23 +1092,14 @@ value unless you are perfectly aware of how this work and changes libcurl's behaviour. This concerns connection using any of the protocols that support persistent connections. -When reaching the maximum limit, curl uses the \fICURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY\fP to -figure out which of the existing connections to close to prevent the number of -open connections to increase. +When reaching the maximum limit, curl closes the oldest one in the cache to +prevent the number of open connections to increase. If you already have performed transfers with this curl handle, setting a smaller MAXCONNECTS than before may cause open connections to get closed unnecessarily. .IP CURLOPT_CLOSEPOLICY -Pass a long. This option sets what policy libcurl should use when the -connection cache is filled and one of the open connections has to be closed to -make room for a new connection. This must be one of the CURLCLOSEPOLICY_* -defines. Use \fICURLCLOSEPOLICY_LEAST_RECENTLY_USED\fP to make libcurl close -the connection that was least recently used, that connection is also least -likely to be capable of re-use. Use \fICURLCLOSEPOLICY_OLDEST\fP to make -libcurl close the oldest connection, the one that was created first among the -ones in the connection cache. The other close policies are not support -yet. +(Obsolete) This option does nothing. .IP CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT Pass a long. Set to non-zero to make the next transfer use a new (fresh) connection by force. If the connection cache is full before this connection, |