Re: How does early error response detection work?

On Mon, 25 May 2020, Osipov, Michael via curl-users wrote:

>> Reading and writing are handled separately and independently. EAGAIN on
>> send() will make it wait until it can write again until it retries and the
>> same thing for recv().
>
> This explains what I see in truss. But how do you notify from recv() that
> send() shall stop sending if both operate separately and independently?

They're independent but curl of course knows how to associate them with each
other and for example if it receives a HTTP response error before it has sent
all the request data, it can opt to stop sending the rest of the data if the
correct conditions are met.

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