Doc #63842 [Opn]: Infinite loop in example code

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63842&edit=1 ID: 63842 User updated by: dean at ovts dot com dot au Reported by: dean at ovts dot com dot au Summary: Infinite loop in example code Status: Open Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: That would certainly fix the inifinite loop problem. I'm not clear on why you'd need to wait 100ms (or some other arbitrary amount of time) before calling curl_multi_exec again... this just seems like bad design to me (even if the libcurl docs recommend it). How many times might you end up doing this 100ms sleep? The whole point of curl_multi_select is to sleep exactly the minimum amount, and wake up as soon as some curl operation is ready to continue. What would happen if you simply ignored the return value of curl_multi_select, and did this: while (curl_multi_exec($mh, $active) === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM); do { curl_multi_select($curlMH); while (curl_multi_exec($curlMH, $active) === CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM); } while ($active); (Also, do we need to break if curl_multi_exec doesn't return CURLM_OK, or can we just keep going until $active is false, as I've done above? What would it mean if $active were true, but the return value wasn't CURLM_OK?) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-12-31 23:04:18] mail+php at requinix dot net curl_multi_init()'s example has the same problem. Given the history of the underlying bug (see bug #63411, bug #61141) I'm hesitant to just go in and submit a change. In the comments for 61141 are two code bits that should work, the preferred one (from pierrick) being while ($active && $mrc == CURLM_OK) { if (curl_multi_select($mh) == -1) usleep(100); do { $mrc = curl_multi_exec($mh, $active); } while ($mrc == CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-12-24 06:48:36] dean at ovts dot com dot au Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.curl-multi-exec --- I think there's a bug in the sample code. If curl_multi_select() returns -1, then the while{} loop just keeps calling it until it returns something else. So if repeated calles to curl_multi_select() can return -1 indefinitely (and the comments on the manual page for that function suggest it can), then the example code will just go into an infinite loop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63842&edit=1