It does not change the following information kept in the handle: live
connections, the Session ID cache, the DNS cache, the cookies and shares.
-
-This function was added in libcurl 7.12.1.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+This function was added in libcurl 7.12.1
.SH RETURN VALUE
Nothing
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.SH DESCRIPTION
The curl_easy_strerror() function returns a string describing the CURLcode
error code passed in the argument \fIerrornum\fP.
-
+.SH AVAILABILITY
This function was added in libcurl 7.12.0
.SH RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a zero terminated string.
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.TH curl_multi_fdset 3 "25 Apr 2005" "libcurl 7.9.5" "libcurl Manual"
+.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
\fIcurl_multi_perform\fP regularly - even if no activity has been seen on the
fd_sets - as otherwise libcurl-internal retries and timeouts may not work as
you'd think and want.
+
+Starting with libcurl 7.16.0, you should use \fBcurl_multi_timeout\fP to
+figure out how long to wait for action.
.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_cleanup "(3)," curl_multi_init "(3), "
+.BR curl_multi_timeout "(3) "
might still have occurred problems on individual transfers even when this
function returns OK.
.SH "TYPICAL USAGE"
-Most application will use \fIcurl_multi_fdset(3)\fP to get the multi_handle's
-file descriptors, then it'll wait for action on them using select() and as
-soon as one or more of them are ready, \fIcurl_multi_perform(3)\fP gets
+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
+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), "
.SH DESCRIPTION
The curl_multi_strerror() function returns a string describing the CURLMcode
error code passed in the argument \fIerrornum\fP.
-
+.SH AVAILABILITY
This function was added in libcurl 7.12.0
.SH RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a zero terminated string.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The curl_share_strerror() function returns a string describing the CURLSHcode
error code passed in the argument \fIerrornum\fP.
-
+.SH AVAILABILITY
This function was added in libcurl 7.12.0
.SH RETURN VALUE
A pointer to a zero terminated string.