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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/file.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/file.c b/lib/file.c index 3977a73e5..004718cd4 100644 --- a/lib/file.c +++ b/lib/file.c @@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ #include "memdebug.h" #endif -/* Emulate a connect-then-transfer protocol. We connect to the file here */ +/* + * Curl_file_connect() gets called from Curl_protocol_connect() to allow us to + * do protocol-specific actions at connect-time. We emulate a + * connect-then-transfer protocol and "connect" to the file here + */ CURLcode Curl_file_connect(struct connectdata *conn) { char *real_path = curl_unescape(conn->path, 0); @@ -159,8 +163,14 @@ CURLcode Curl_file_connect(struct connectdata *conn) #define lseek(x,y,z) _lseeki64(x, y, z) #endif -/* This is the do-phase, separated from the connect-phase above */ - +/* + * Curl_file() is the protocol-specific function for the do-phase, separated + * from the connect-phase above. Other protocols merely setup the transfer in + * the do-phase, to have it done in the main transfer loop but since some + * platforms we support don't allow select()ing etc on file handles (as + * opposed to sockets) we instead perform the whole do-operation in this + * function. + */ CURLcode Curl_file(struct connectdata *conn) { /* This implementation ignores the host name in conformance with |