diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 index 96b3c7e66..9250a77eb 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ curl_multi_select - polls on all easy handles in a multi handle CURLMcode curl_multi_wait(CURLM *multi_handle, struct curl_waitfd extra_fds[], unsigned int extra_nfds, - int timeout_ms); + int timeout_ms, + int *ret); .ad .SH DESCRIPTION This function polls on all file descriptors used by the curl easy handles @@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ detected on at least one of the handles or \fItimeout_ms\fP has passed. 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 \fIret\fI is supplied, it will be populated with the +number of file descriptors on which interesting events occured. + This function is encouraged to be used instead of select(3) when using the multi interface to allow applications to easier circumvent the common problem with 1024 maximum file descriptors. |