On Sat, 25 Dec 2010, Alessio Sangalli wrote:

> I have set NOSIGNAL and - the situation does not seem to happen!
>
> Could you be so kind to eleborate on the implications of using NOSIGNAL?

It means libcurl will not attempt to use signals to cancel slow name resolves,
and it will not try to block any signals. It'll simply not touch anything that
involves signals.

If you use the stock synchronous name resolver you won't be able to time out
name resolves without signals.

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