Due to WSAPoll bugs, libcurl does not work as intended. When the cURL
library is used to setup a connection to an incorrect port, normally the
result is CURLE_COULDNT_CONNECT, /* 7 */, but due to the bug in WSAPoll,
the result now is CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT, /* 28 - the timeout time was
reached */.
On August 1, Jan Koen Annot opened a case for this to Microsoft Premier
Online (https://premier.microsoft.com/). The support engineer handling
the case wrote that the case description is quite clear. He will try to
reproduce the issue and then proceed with troubleshooting it.
Reported by: Jan Koen Annot
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-07/0310.html
If a socket is larger than FD_SETSIZE, avoid using FD_SET() on the
platforms where this is possible.
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3413274
Reported by: Tim Starling
is set in fdset.events" (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=2015126) which
exactly pinpointed the problem only triggered on Windows Vista, provided
reference to docs and also a fix. There is much work behind Peter Lamberg's
excellent bug report. Thank You!
done if the sys/poll.h file is missing, as we have seen machines with poll()
present but without the header file and machines that don't get HAVE_POLL
defined but that do have the sys/poll.h header file...
to find that it crashed miserably, and this was due to some select()isms left
in the code. This was due to API restrictions in c-ares 1.3.x, but with the
upcoming c-ares 1.4.0 this is no longer the case so now libcurl runs much
better with c-ares and the multi interface with > 1024 file descriptors in
use.
function that deprecates the curl_multi_socket() function. Using the new
function the application tell libcurl what action that was found in the
socket that it passes in. This gives a significant performance boost as it
allows libcurl to avoid a call to poll()/select() for every call to
curl_multi_socket*().
Curl_poll() which is called whenever not a single valid file descriptor is
passed to these functions.
Improve readibility using a poll() macro to replace WSApoll().
