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CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL: add blurb about SIGPIPE

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Daniel Stenberg 2010-11-04 09:49:02 +01:00
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@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ If this option is set and libcurl has been built with the standard name
resolver, timeouts will not occur while the name resolve takes place.
Consider building libcurl with c-ares support to enable asynchronous DNS
lookups, which enables nice timeouts for name resolves without signals.
Setting \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL\fP to 1 makes libcurl NOT ask the system to ignore
SIGPIPE signals, which otherwise are sent by the system when trying to send
data to a socket which is closed in the other end. libcurl makes an effort to
never cause such SIGPIPEs to trigger, but some operating systems have no way
to avoid them and even on those that have there are some corner cases when
they may still happen, contrary to our desire.
.IP CURLOPT_WILDCARDMATCH
Set this option to 1 if you want to transfer multiple files according to a
file name pattern. The pattern can be specified as part of the