On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Gautam Mani wrote:

> I am using libcurl 7.9.6 on solaris 8. I basically use libcurl to get a
> list of files to download from a directory and then download and delete
> them one after another using FTP. Due to some reason, there was no read
> access on the files which i needed to download, so although I could list
> the files, I could not download them. Repeatedly a data connection was made
> to the server and a permission denied was received for each of the files.
>
> After sometime (a large number of attempts) - libcurl started throwing
> socket errors; the error code returned is 15 "can't resovlve hostname xxx".
> In verbose mode, it says that gethostbyname_r failed for the host.
>
> Has anybody else faced a similar problem or does someone have any other
> ideas on this problem? I would really appreciate any pointers on this.

I agree with Rick Jones' analysis that it sounds and looks as if it is some
resource fatique that has happened.

I honestly don't think libcurl itself leaks file descriptors (though I may be
wrong) so I'd advice you to review your own code regarding this kinds of
stuff.

I don't think upgrading to libcurl 7.9.7 will solve this issue for you.

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