From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:43:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] http: turn off curl signals
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111100941380.27581@tvnag.unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20111110074803.GB27950@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Jeff King wrote:

> I'm a little iffy on this one. If I understand correctly, depending on the 
> build and configuration, curl may not be able to timeout during DNS lookups. 
> But I'm not sure if it does, anyway, since we don't set any timeouts.

Right, without a timeout set libcurl won't try to timeout name resolves.

To clarify: when libcurl is built to use the standard synchronous name 
resolver functions it can only abort them after a specified time by using 
signals (on posix systems).

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