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Re: AIX and thread

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:48:23 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Christophe Neumair wrote:

> It would seem that AIX don't like nonblocking
> sockets.
> Then, I just run the configure with
> --disable-nonblocking option and all request
> are a complete success :)

If I were you, I'd contact someone about this. It sounds like a serious flaw.
Perhaps there's already a patch available for your OS that fixes this problem.

libcurl won't be able to time-out properly in lots of places when you disable
non-blocking sockets.

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Received on 2004-04-07