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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket.3 index fb118eb65..6f03cdc68 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_socket.3 @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ curl_multi_socket \- reads/writes available data CURLMcode curl_multi_socket(CURLM * multi_handle, curl_socket_t sockfd, - CURL *easy, curl_socket_callback callback, void *userp); @@ -19,11 +18,10 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_socket_all(CURLM *multi_handle, Alternative versions of \fIcurl_multi_perform()\fP that allows the application to pass in one of the file descriptors/sockets that have been detected to have \&"action" on them and let libcurl perform. This allows libcurl to not have to -scan through all possible file descriptors to check for action. The -application is recommended to pass in the \fBeasy\fP argument (or set it to -CURL_EASY_NONE) to make libcurl figure out the internal structure even faster -and easier. If the easy argument is set to something else than -CURL_EASY_NONE, the \fBsockfd\fP argument will be ignored by libcurl. +scan through all possible file descriptors to check for action. When the +application has detected on a socket handled by libcurl, call +\fIcurl_multi_perform()\fP with the \fBsockfd\fP argument set to the socket +with the action. These functions inform the application about updates in the socket (file descriptor) status by doing none, one or multiple calls to the @@ -39,8 +37,7 @@ transfers instead of just a single one, you call An application should call \fBcurl_multi_timeout(3)\fP to figure out how long it should wait for socket actions \- at most \- before doing the timeout action: call the \fBcurl_multi_socket(3)\fP function with the \fBsockfd\fP -argument set to CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT and the \fBeasy\fP argument set to -CURL_EASY_TIMEOUT. +argument set to CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT. \fBcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP is the exact equivalent of calling \fBcurl_multi_socket_all\fP(handle, NULL, NULL); |