Commit 11ee9540 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Bug report #948950, excessive amount of file descriptors might crash libcurl

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@@ -3,9 +3,13 @@ join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the
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may have been fixed since this was written!

* If you use a very large amount of file descriptors (more than FD_SETSIZE)
  and then use libcurl, it might crash on its use of select() which then
  stores data out of bounds. Bug report #948950.

* --limit-rate using -d or -F does not work. This is because the limit logic
  is provided by the curl app in its read/write callbacks, and when doing
  -d/-F the callbacks aren't used!
  -d/-F the callbacks aren't used! Bug report #921395.

* Doing resumed upload over HTTP does not work with '-C -', because curl
  doesn't do a HEAD first to get the initial size. This needs to be done