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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 index 5cfa7f146..8914fce6b 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_fdset(CURLM *multi_handle, This function extracts file descriptor information from a given multi_handle. libcurl returns its fd_set sets. The application can use these to select() on, but be sure to FD_ZERO them before calling this function as -\fIcurl_multi_fdset(3)\fP only adds its own descriptors, it doesn't zero or +\fIcurl_multi_fdset(3)\fP only adds its own descriptors, it does not zero or otherwise remove any others. The \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP function should be called as soon as one of them is ready to be read from or written to. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ error conditions pending. If no file descriptors are set by libcurl, \fImax_fd\fP will contain -1 when this function returns. Otherwise it will contain the highest descriptor number libcurl set. When libcurl returns -1 in \fImax_fd\fP, it is because libcurl -currently does something that isn't possible for your application to monitor +currently does something that is not possible for your application to monitor with a socket and unfortunately you can then not know exactly when the current action is completed using select(). You then need to wait a while before you proceed and call \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP anyway. How long to wait? Unless @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ conditions to find a suitable value. When doing select(), you should use \fIcurl_multi_timeout(3)\fP to figure out how long to wait for action. Call \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP even if no activity has been seen on the fd_sets after the timeout expires as otherwise -internal retries and timeouts may not work as you'd think and want. +internal retries and timeouts may not work as you would think and want. If one of the sockets used by libcurl happens to be larger than what can be set in an fd_set, which on POSIX systems means that the file descriptor is |