On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Madhavan Sivathanu pillai wrote:

> > What operating system are you using and exactly how do you reproduce this
> > problem?
>
> we are on a process of downloading a file from a remote server.
> While downloading the file,we pulled the ethernet cable off....
> this disrupts the download as curl stops the transfer.

Now you say it stops the transfer, previously you said it did "loop
infinitely". Are both describing the same thing?

If it hangs, can you strace it or attach gdb to it or something and see
exactly what happens internally?

> I am new to curl and am looking at the code which was implemented into our
> system by some one else.I would appreciate if any of you could help me with
> this issue.

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