Igor Novoseltsev reported a problem with the multi socket API and
using timeouts and timers. It boiled down to a problem with
libcurl's use of GetTickCount() interally to figure out the
current time, while Igor's own application code used another
function call.
It made his app call the socket API timeout function a bit
_before_ libcurl would consider the timeout to trigger, and that
could easily lead to timeouts or stalls in the app. It seems
GetTickCount() in general often has no better resolution than
16ms and switching to the alternative function
QueryPerformanceCounter has its share of problems:
http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=106
We address this problem by simply having libcurl treat timers
that already has occured or will occur within 40ms subject for
treatment. I'm confident that there are other implementations and
operating systems with similarly in accurate timer functions so
it makes sense to have applied generically and I don't believe we
sacrifice much by adding a 40ms inaccuracy on these timeouts.
makes the LDAP code much cleaner, nicer and in general being a
better libcurl citizen. If a new enough OpenLDAP version is
detect, the new and shiny lib/openldap.c code is then used
instead of the old cruft
Code by Howard, minor cleanups by Daniel.
bool in curl internals is unsigned char and should not be used
to receive return value from functions returning int - this fails
when using IBM VisualAge and Tru64 compilers.
Eric Mertens posted bug #3003705: when we made TFTP use the
correct timeout option when sent to the server (fixed May 18th
2010) it became obvious that libcurl used invalid timeout values
(300 by default while the RFC allows nothing above 255). While of
course it is obvious that as TFTP has worked thus far without
being able to set timeout at all, just removing the setting
wouldn't make any difference in behavior. I decided to still keep
it (but fix the problem) as it now actually allows for easier
(future) customization of the timeout.
(http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3003705)
In a normal expression, doing [unsigned short] + 1 will not wrap
at 16 bits so the comparisons and outputs were done wrong. I
added a macro do make sure it gets done right.
Douglas Kilpatrick filed bug report #3004787 about it:
http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3004787
By undefing a bunch of E* defines that VC10 has started to define
but that we redefine internally to their WSA* alternatives when
building for Windows.
