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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-12-02 12:05:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2021-12-02 12:05:48 +0100 |
| commit | c8a3046555378f81b22d51e3887df8a5cf1ab5bf (patch) | |
| tree | 0872d87d75c0b819aeb98e2607f88f8c525c8315 | |
| parent | 456c53730d21b1fad0c7f72c1817999fba93d077 (diff) | |
| download | curl-c8a3046555378f81b22d51e3887df8a5cf1ab5bf.tar.gz | |
CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3: call it expire time, not interval
Since we say it is a non-repating timer
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 index cacc23548..bea24e293 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION.3 @@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ Certain features, such as timeouts and retries, require you to call libcurl even when there is no activity on the file descriptors. Your callback function \fBtimer_callback\fP should install a non-repeating -timer with an interval of \fBtimeout_ms\fP. When that timer fires, call -either \fIcurl_multi_socket_action(3)\fP or \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP, -depending on which interface you use. +timer with an expire time of \fBtimeout_ms\fP milliseconds. When that timer +fires, call either \fIcurl_multi_socket_action(3)\fP or +\fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP, depending on which interface you use. A \fBtimeout_ms\fP value of -1 passed to this callback means you should delete the timer. All other values are valid expire times in number of milliseconds. |