Hi,

I have implemented a program which uses CURL to make HTTPS (SSL) POST
requests. The program is a non interactive daemon process, so it needs
to be 100%, my question is...

Can a call to curl_simple_request() potentially block forever, i.e.
perhaps when a write() or read() call blocks and there's a problem
with the underlying socket.

If so I could implement an alarm call to force the forked process
which is handling the request to die (by calling _exit() from within
the SIGALARM signal handler. I don't want to have to do this if it's
not required, i.e. curl_simple_request() has a timeout feature already
implemented.

Thanks in advance, Dan...

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