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[Grzegorz Gutowski <1375663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Our application using libcurl for http communication was behaving
awkward and after thorough investigation we found that in some cases it
doesn't retry a poll after EINTR. Later we found, that this is a bug in
libcurl and that it was repaired in this upstream patch:

https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/97d2e4bd75d1be26b48f37900b7b719c418e0ac6

# lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:	14.04
# apt-cache policy curl
curl:
  Installed: 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1

** Affects: curl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Patch added: "fix_timeout_return_value.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1375663/+attachment/4220043/+files/fix_timeout_return_value.patch

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Title:
  curl handles EINTR wrong

Status in “curl” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Our application using libcurl for http communication was behaving
  awkward and after thorough investigation we found that in some cases
  it doesn't retry a poll after EINTR. Later we found, that this is a
  bug in libcurl and that it was repaired in this upstream patch:

  https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/97d2e4bd75d1be26b48f37900b7b719c418e0ac6

  # lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  # apt-cache policy curl
  curl:
    Installed: 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1
    Candidate: 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.1

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