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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 index 0045cfe26..63b834148 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-tutorial.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006, 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 @@ -267,11 +267,13 @@ GnuTLS http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Multi_002dthreaded-applications.html -When using multiple threads you should set the CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL option to -TRUE for all handles. Everything will work fine except that timeouts are not -honored during the DNS lookup - which you can work around by building libcurl -with c-ares support. c-ares is a library that provides asynchronous name -resolves. Unfortunately, c-ares does not yet support IPv6. +When using multiple threads you should set the CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL option to TRUE +for all handles. Everything will or might work fine except that timeouts are +not honored during the DNS lookup - which you can work around by building +libcurl with c-ares support. c-ares is a library that provides asynchronous +name resolves. Unfortunately, c-ares does not yet fully support IPv6. On some +platforms, libcurl simply will not function properly multi-threaded unless +this option is set. Also, note that CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE is not thread-safe. |