url: document url_read exact behaviour.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libavformat/url.h b/libavformat/url.h
index b459a59e03..b3eafa63c7 100644
--- a/libavformat/url.h
+++ b/libavformat/url.h
@@ -59,6 +59,19 @@ typedef struct URLProtocol {
      * for those nested protocols.
      */
     int     (*url_open2)(URLContext *h, const char *url, int flags, AVDictionary **options);
+
+    /**
+     * Read data from the protocol.
+     * If data is immediately available (even less than size), EOF is
+     * reached or an error occurs (including EINTR), return immediately,
+     * Otherwise:
+     * In non-blocking mode, return AVERROR(EAGAIN) immediately.
+     * In blocking mode, wait for data/EOF/error with a short timeout (0.1s),
+     * and return AVERROR(EAGAIN) on timeout.
+     * Checking interrupt_callback, looping on EINTR and EAGAIN and until
+     * enough data has been read is left to the calling function; see
+     * retry_transfer_wrapper in avio.c.
+     */
     int     (*url_read)( URLContext *h, unsigned char *buf, int size);
     int     (*url_write)(URLContext *h, const unsigned char *buf, int size);
     int64_t (*url_seek)( URLContext *h, int64_t pos, int whence);