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Re: Is it possible to break the timeout of select call?

From: Jogeshwar Karthik Akundi <ajkarthik_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:46:35 +0530

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, <centrio_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> I am using multi handle for my application. I have a select call on the
> curl FDs, and on return of select, i do multi_perform depending upon the
> return value of select . The timeout for select is 1 min.
> I have a problem here since if the select is blocked for 1 mins, and if I
> want to close my application, it hangs for one min.
>
> I cannot reduce the 1 min timeout. Is it possible to use any curl APIs to
> break this select?
>
> you can use pselect() instead of select() and unblock SIGTERM using the
sigmask parameter.

> Please suggest.
>
> Regards
> Shivanand
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