Are async reads with select, an option????

regards,
Nico Baggus

>-----Original Message-----
>From: curl_at_contactor.se
>Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:38 PM
>To: "'curl_at_contactor.se'" <curl_at_contactor.se>
>Subject: Re: 6.5.2 Win32 FTP Problem
>
>
>On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
>> I use the curl program for automated FTP transfers on a NT
>Server to a MS
>> FTP server on NT Workstation. We connect using RAS. I have one small
>> problem. When the FTP server becomes unavailable, either
>because the server
>> stops responding or the RAS line drops out, curl still tries
>to transfer
>> data and is still doing it when I get come in the morning. I
>have not had
>> any success with -Y -y and I note that -m does not work on Win32.
>
>The problem is that if the connection to the server is aborted
>when curl
>issues commands and waits for them to be completed by the
>server, there is no
>working timeout functionality in curl-win32. The unix
>implementation depends
>on the alarm() for aborting the read() call that otherwise
>hangs "forever".
>
>If anyone with some win32 skills have a suggestion on how to
>deal with this,
>then please step forward and help me out with this.
>
>I think the proper thing to do for me is to use switch() for
>all reads (in
>that context), as it would let me timeout better. Please allow
>me some time
>for doing this.
>
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