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Re: about "-m" on windows systems

From: Gisle Vanem <gvanem_at_broadpark.no>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:12:29 +0100

"Daniel Stenberg" <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se> said:

> 2. Does that _really_ work without leaking memory? (Gisle says his version
> written for wget works, so it can obviously be done.)

I talked about terminating a thread. That pretty safe. No leaks in Wget
yet. But Pavuk terminates a whole spawned process tree. That could at
best truncate files, at worst leak other resources. I'm not sure, but it's
not nice.

> Feel free to write us a patch!

Okay, I'll try with the timeSetEvent() method.

--gv

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Received on 2004-02-04