Commit c2404f77 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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Extended the explanation for CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM somewhat.

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@@ -30,11 +30,15 @@ If you receive \fICURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM\fP, this basically means that you
should call \fIcurl_multi_perform\fP again, before you select() on more
actions. You don't have to do it immediately, but the return code means that
libcurl may have more data available to return or that there may be more data
to send off before it is "satisfied".
to send off before it is "satisfied". Do note that \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP
will return \fICURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM\fP only when it wants to be called
again \fBimmediately\fP. When things are fine and there are nothing immediate
it wants done, it'll return \fICURLM_OK\fP and you need to wait for \&"action"
and then call this function again.

NOTE that this only returns errors etc regarding the whole multi stack. There
might still have occurred problems on individual transfers even when this
function returns OK.
function returns \fICURLM_OK\fP.
.SH "TYPICAL USAGE"
Most applications will use \fIcurl_multi_fdset(3)\fP to get the multi_handle's
file descriptors, then it'll wait for action on them using \fBselect(3)\fP and
@@ -42,4 +46,5 @@ as soon as one or more of them are ready, \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP gets
called.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR curl_multi_cleanup "(3), " curl_multi_init "(3), "
.BR curl_multi_fdset "(3), " curl_multi_info_read "(3)"
.BR curl_multi_fdset "(3), " curl_multi_info_read "(3), "
.BR libcurl-errors "(3)"