From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] http: turn off curl signals
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:43:40 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1111100941380.27581@tvnag.unkk.fr> (raw)
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).
--
/ daniel.haxx.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-10 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 7:43 [PATCH 0/14] resumable network bundles Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:45 ` Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:46 ` [PATCH 01/14] t/lib-httpd: check for NO_CURL Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:48 ` [PATCH 02/14] http: turn off curl signals Jeff King
2011-11-10 8:43 ` Daniel Stenberg [this message]
2011-11-11 20:54 ` Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:48 ` [PATCH 03/14] http: refactor http_request function Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:49 ` [PATCH 04/14] http: add a public function for arbitrary-callback request Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:49 ` [PATCH 05/14] remote-curl: use http callback for requesting refs Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:49 ` [PATCH 06/14] transport: factor out bundle to ref list conversion Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:50 ` [PATCH 07/14] bundle: add is_bundle_buf helper Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:50 ` [PATCH 08/14] remote-curl: free "discovery" object Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:50 ` [PATCH 09/14] remote-curl: auto-detect bundles when fetching refs Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:51 ` [PATCH 10/14] remote-curl: try base $URL after $URL/info/refs Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 11/14] progress: allow pure-throughput progress meters Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 12/14] remote-curl: show progress for bundle downloads Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:53 ` [PATCH 13/14] remote-curl: resume interrupted bundle transfers Jeff King
2011-11-10 7:56 ` [PATCH 14/14] clone: give advice on how to resume a failed clone Jeff King
2011-11-10 21:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-11 20:52 ` Jeff King
2011-11-11 13:13 ` [PATCH 0/14] resumable network bundles David Michael Barr
2011-11-12 16:11 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2011-11-12 17:58 ` Jeff King
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