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libcurl-thread.3: expand somewhat on the NO_SIGNAL motivation

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Multi-threaded applictions basically MUST set CURLOPT_NO_SIGNAL to 1L to
avoid the risk of getting a SIGPIPE.

Either way, a multi-threaded application that uses libcurl/openssl needs
to have a signhandler for or ignore SIGPIPE on its own.

Based on discussions in #2800
Closes #2904
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.\" * Copyright (C) 2015 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
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@ -79,8 +79,14 @@ all handles. Everything will or might work fine except that timeouts are not
honored during the DNS lookup - which you can work around by building libcurl
with c-ares or threaded-resolver support. c-ares is a library that provides
asynchronous name resolves. On some platforms, libcurl simply will not
function properly multi-threaded unless the \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP option is
set.
function properly multi-threaded unless the \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP option
is set.
When \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP is set to 1L, your application needs to deal
with the risk of a SIGPIPE (that at least the OpenSSL backend can
trigger). Note that setting \fICURLOPT_NOSIGNAL(3)\fP to 0L will not work in a
threaded situation as there will be race where libcurl risks restoring the
former signal handler while another thread should still ignore it.
.IP "Name resolving"
\fBgethostby* functions and other system calls.\fP These functions, provided
by your operating system, must be thread safe. It is very important that