Commit 2a0bc642 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer's added notes about NOSIGNAL in the TIMEOUT 

descriptions, slightly edited by me.
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docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3

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@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ considerable time and limiting operations to less than a few minutes risk 
aborting perfectly normal operations. This option will cause curl to use the

SIGALRM to enable time-outing system calls.



\fBNOTE:\fP this does not work in Unix multi-threaded programs, as it uses

signals.

\fBNOTE:\fP this is not recommended to use in unix multi-threaded programs, as

it uses signals unless CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL (see below) is set.

.TP

.B CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS

Pass a char * as parameter, which should be the full data to post in a HTTP
@@ -625,8 +625,8 @@ it has connected, this option is of no more use. Set to zero to disable 
connection timeout (it will then only timeout on the system's internal

timeouts). See also the \fICURLOPT_TIMEOUT\fP option.



\fBNOTE:\fP this does not work in unix multi-threaded programs, as it uses

signals.

\fBNOTE:\fP this is not recommended to use in unix multi-threaded programs, as

it uses signals unless CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL (see below) is set.

.TP

.B CURLOPT_HTTPGET

Pass a long. If the long is non-zero, this forces the HTTP request to get back