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Re: curl library and charset

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:28:19 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Carlos Alvarez wrote:

> This was happening with 7.13.2 too. I have resolved this problem using
> CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL to true. What is the point with signals and multithread
> under linux ??

The point is that signals and multi-threaded programs is generally not a good
mix. I don't know how different operating systems deal with them, but I
suggest you read up on the subject.

> Does the timeouts work as well with nosignals ?

On *nix, DNS resolves will not be timed out without signals unless you build
with c-ares.

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Received on 2005-04-08