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diff --git a/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3dbdc45044 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/FTPFileYM/curl/docs/libcurl/curl_multi_fdset.3 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" ************************************************************************** +.\" * _ _ ____ _ +.\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | +.\" * / __| | | | |_) | | +.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ +.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| +.\" * +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * +.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which +.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms +.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * +.\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell +.\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is +.\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. +.\" * +.\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY +.\" * KIND, either express or implied. +.\" * +.\" ************************************************************************** +.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "2 Jan 2006" "libcurl 7.16.0" "libcurl Manual" +.SH NAME +curl_multi_fdset - extracts file descriptor information from a multi handle +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +#include <curl/curl.h> + +CURLMcode curl_multi_fdset(CURLM *multi_handle, + fd_set *read_fd_set, + fd_set *write_fd_set, + fd_set *exc_fd_set, + int *max_fd); +.ad +.SH DESCRIPTION +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 +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. + +If no file descriptors are set by libcurl, \fImax_fd\fP will contain -1 when +this function returns. Otherwise it will contain the higher 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 +with a socket and unfortunately you can then not know exactly when the current +action is completed using select(). When max_fd returns with -1, you need to +wait a while and then proceed and call \fIcurl_multi_perform\fP anyway. How +long to wait? I would suggest 100 milliseconds at least, but you may want to +test it out in your own particular conditions to find a suitable value. + +When doing select(), you should use \fBcurl_multi_timeout\fP to figure out how +long to wait for action. Call \fIcurl_multi_perform\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. + +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 +larger than FD_SETSIZE, then libcurl will try to not set it. Setting a too +large file descriptor in an fd_set implies an out of bounds write which can +cause crashes, or worse. The effect of NOT storing it will possibly save you +from the crash, but will make your program NOT wait for sockets it should wait +for... +.SH RETURN VALUE +CURLMcode type, general libcurl multi interface error code. See +\fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR curl_multi_cleanup "(3), " curl_multi_init "(3), " +.BR curl_multi_timeout "(3), " curl_multi_perform "(3) " |