Re: [PATCH 02/14] http: turn off curl signals

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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