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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2019-11-28 15:56:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2019-11-28 22:29:18 +0100 |
| commit | bc64377ff8386d4f809806b6286f43e5aff19922 (patch) | |
| tree | e72362d3daa956952ea442ea78a4c77b19ff811f /docs/libcurl | |
| parent | cc4cf93e52802e6b450a3dceae86c4f289a0bb65 (diff) | |
| download | curl-bc64377ff8386d4f809806b6286f43e5aff19922.tar.gz | |
docs: add more references to curl_multi_poll
Fixes #4643
Closes #4652
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 index 9ff4651c7..c1ae14fd1 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_wait.3 @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ number can include both libcurl internal descriptors as well as descriptors provided in \fIextra_fds\fP. If no extra file descriptors are provided and libcurl has no file descriptor -to offer to wait for, this function will return immediately. +to offer to wait for, this function will return immediately. (Try +\fIcurl_multi_poll(3)\fP instead if you rather avoid this behavior.) 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 @@ -119,4 +120,4 @@ CURLMcode type, general libcurl multi interface error code. See .SH AVAILABILITY This function was added in libcurl 7.28.0. .SH "SEE ALSO" -.BR curl_multi_fdset "(3), " curl_multi_perform "(3)" +.BR curl_multi_fdset "(3), " curl_multi_perform "(3)", curl_multi_poll "(3) ", diff --git a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 index 5d7c27b95..4674abdce 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/libcurl-multi.3 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ returns back to the calling application. Your application extracts info from libcurl about when it would like to get invoked to transfer data or do other work. The most convenient way is to use -\fIcurl_multi_wait(3)\fP that will help you wait until the application should +\fIcurl_multi_poll(3)\fP that will help you wait until the application should call libcurl again. The older API to accomplish the same thing is \fIcurl_multi_fdset(3)\fP that extracts fd_sets from libcurl to use in select() or poll() calls in order to get to know when the transfers in the |