I'm interested in interrupting and immediately stopping all ongoing uploads
being done through the multi-interface.

In this post back in 2002 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2002-12/0056.html,
Daniel said that there is no way to immediately do this other than to use a
callback function (such as the progress callback function.). Is that still
the case?

The docs on the progresscallback function say (
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html): "This function gets
called by libcurl instead of its internal equivalent with a frequent
interval during operation (roughly once per second or sooner)". Is there any
way to control this interval?

Alternative #1, I could set a read callback function which uploads very
small chunks at a time. And then return 0 when I wanted to stop
transferring.

Alternative #2, I could spawn a new thread, do a multi_curl_perfom (or
easy_curl_perform) in that thread. When I want to stop that transfer, I
could send a Signal to the thread that would cause it to kill itself.

What is the most commonly used approach to this problem?

- Saqib

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