1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Title: CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT
5Section: 3
6Source: libcurl
7See-also:
8  - CURLOPT_FAILONERROR (3)
9  - CURLOPT_RESOLVE (3)
10---
11
12# NAME
13
14CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT - allow to exit quickly
15
16# SYNOPSIS
17
18~~~c
19#include <curl/curl.h>
20
21CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT,
22                          long value);
23~~~
24
25# DESCRIPTION
26
27Pass a long as a parameter, 1L meaning that when recovering from a timeout,
28libcurl should skip lengthy cleanups that are intended to avoid all kinds of
29leaks (threads etc.), as the caller program is about to call exit() anyway.
30This allows for a swift termination after a DNS timeout for example, by
31canceling and/or forgetting about a resolver thread, at the expense of a
32possible (though short-lived) leak of associated resources.
33
34# DEFAULT
35
360
37
38# PROTOCOLS
39
40All
41
42# EXAMPLE
43
44~~~c
45int main(void)
46{
47  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
48  if(curl) {
49    CURLcode ret;
50    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_QUICK_EXIT, 1L);
51    ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
52  }
53}
54~~~
55
56# AVAILABILITY
57
58Added in 7.87.0
59
60# RETURN VALUE
61
62Returns CURLE_OK if the option is supported, and CURLE_UNKNOWN_OPTION if not.
63