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docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format

curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730

2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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Title

Section

Source

See-also

curl

CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION

libcurl

CURLMOPT_SOCKETFUNCTION (3)

CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA (3)

NAME

CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION - callback to receive timeout values

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

int timer_callback(CURLM *multi,    /* multi handle */
                   long timeout_ms, /* timeout in number of ms */
                   void *clientp);    /* private callback pointer */

CURLMcode curl_multi_setopt(CURLM *handle, CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION, timer_callback);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype shown above.

Certain features, such as timeouts and retries, require you to call libcurl even when there is no activity on the file descriptors.

Your callback function timer_callback should install a non-repeating timer with an expire time of timeout_ms milliseconds. When that timer fires, call either curl_multi_socket_action(3) or curl_multi_perform(3), depending on which interface you use.

A timeout_ms value of -1 passed to this callback means you should delete the timer. All other values are valid expire times in number of milliseconds.

The timer_callback is called when the timeout expire time is changed.

The clientp pointer is set with CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA(3).

The timer callback should return 0 on success, and -1 on error. If this callback returns error, all transfers currently in progress in this multi handle are aborted and made to fail.

This callback can be used instead of, or in addition to, curl_multi_timeout(3).

WARNING: do not call libcurl directly from within the callback itself when the timeout_ms value is zero, since it risks triggering an unpleasant recursive behavior that immediately calls another call to the callback with a zero timeout...

DEFAULT

NULL

PROTOCOLS

All

EXAMPLE

struct priv {
  void *custom;
};

static int timerfunc(CURLM *multi, long timeout_ms, void *clientp)
{
 struct priv *mydata = clientp;
 printf("our ptr: %p\n", mydata->custom);

 if(timeout_ms) {
   /* this is the new single timeout to wait for */
 }
 else {
   /* delete the timeout, nothing to wait for now */
 }
}

int main(void)
{
  struct priv mydata;
  CURLM *multi = curl_multi_init();
  curl_multi_setopt(multi, CURLMOPT_TIMERFUNCTION, timerfunc);
  curl_multi_setopt(multi, CURLMOPT_TIMERDATA, &mydata);
}

AVAILABILITY

Added in 7.16.0

RETURN VALUE

Returns CURLM_OK if the option is supported, and CURLM_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.

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