On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nilesh Simaria wrote:

> I am using libcurl for ftpupload and ftpdownload. Sometimes I am able to
> upload file successfully, and sometimes I am getting error No 28, "Transfer
> aborted due to select() error".

select error? Weird. Can you add a check for what 'errno' contains when that
happens? (around line 250 in lib/ftp.c)

> But when I remove code which sends SIGALRM, ftpupload works fine.

Which code is this? The timeout code in libcurl or are you talking about some
other code?

> But the code which sends SIGALRM everyafter 1 sec is very important in my
> application. How can I go with both, libcurl and alarm.

You must make sure that your signal handler that receives the SIGALRM does
not abort the system call. SA_RESTART is the key to success!

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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