.\" ************************************************************************** .\" * _ _ ____ _ .\" * Project ___| | | | _ \| | .\" * / __| | | | |_) | | .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * .\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms .\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is .\" * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file. .\" * .\" * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY .\" * KIND, either express or implied. .\" * .\" ************************************************************************** .TH curl_multi_wait 3 "12 Jul 2012" "libcurl 7.28.0" "libcurl Manual" .SH NAME curl_multi_wait - polls on all easy handles in a multi handle .SH SYNOPSIS .nf #include <curl/curl.h> CURLMcode curl_multi_wait(CURLM *multi_handle, struct curl_waitfd extra_fds[], unsigned int extra_nfds, int timeout_ms, int *numfds); .ad .SH DESCRIPTION This function polls on all file descriptors used by the curl easy handles contained in the given multi handle set. It will block until activity is detected on at least one of the handles or \fItimeout_ms\fP has passed. The calling application may pass additional curl_waitfd structures which are similar to \fIpoll(2)\fP's pollfd structure to be waited on in the same call. On completion, if \fInumfds\fP is supplied, it will be populated with the number of file descriptors on which interesting events occured. This function is encouraged to be used instead of select(3) when using the multi interface to allow applications to easier circumvent the common problem with 1024 maximum file descriptors. .SH curl_waitfd .nf struct curl_waitfd { curl_socket_t fd; short events; short revents; }; .fi .IP CURL_WAIT_POLLIN Bit flag to curl_waitfd.events indicating the socket should poll on read events such as new data received. .IP CURL_WAIT_POLLPRI Bit flag to curl_waitfd.events indicating the socket should poll on high priority read events such as out of band data. .IP CURL_WAIT_POLLOUT Bit flag to curl_waitfd.events indicating the socket should poll on write events such as the socket being clear to write without blocking. .SH RETURN VALUE CURLMcode type, general libcurl multi interface error code. See \fIlibcurl-errors(3)\fP .SH AVAILABILITY This function was added in libcurl 7.28.0 .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR curl_multi_fdset "(3), " curl_multi_perform "(3)"