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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/README.multi_socket')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/README.multi_socket b/lib/README.multi_socket index e18b90497..22e788bf5 100644 --- a/lib/README.multi_socket +++ b/lib/README.multi_socket @@ -43,15 +43,12 @@ Implementation of the curl_multi_socket API handle conversion on its own. I find it very unlikely that applications would want to do that and since libcurl would need such a lookup on its own anyway since we didn't want to force applications to do that translation - code (it would be optional), it seemed like an unnecessary option. I also - realized that when we use underlying libraries such as c-ares (for DNS - asynch resolving) there might in fact be more than one transfer waiting for - action on the same socket and thus it makes the lookup even tricker and even - less likely to ever get done by applications. Instead I created an internal - "socket to easy handles" hash table that given a socket (file descriptor) - returns a list of easy handles that waits for some action on that socket. - This hash is made using the already existing hash code (previously only used - for the DNS cache). + code (it would be optional), it seemed like an unnecessary option. + + Instead I created an internal "socket to easy handles" hash table that given + a socket (file descriptor) return the easy handle that waits for action on + that socket. This hash is made using the already existing hash code + (previously only used for the DNS cache). To make libcurl be able to report plain sockets in the socket callback, I had to re-organize the internals of the curl_multi_fdset() etc so that the |