Ok got a question, I'm using the multi interface. And here is the scenario.
Say a connection "fails" (times out). The below snippet's comments
illustrate my problem

/* This finishes with cont != 0 so while is entered */
 while(CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM == curl_multi_perform(multihandle, &cont))
  ;

 while(cont) {
  struct timeval timeout;
  int rc;

  fd_set fdread, fdwrite, fdexcep;
  int maxfd;
  FD_ZERO(&fdread);
  FD_ZERO(&fdwrite);
  FD_ZERO(&fdexcep);
  timeout.tv_sec = 1;
  timeout.tv_usec = 0;

  curl_multi_fdset(multihandle, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep, &maxfd);

  rc = select(maxfd+1, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep, &timeout);
 /* rc = 0 (timeout) */

  switch(rc) {
   case -1:
   case 0:
    /* jumps back to the top of the while */
    break;
   default:
    while(CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM ==
     curl_multi_perform(multihandle, &cont))
     ;
  }
 }

Since cont was set to !0 that one time, the loop is infinite. I copied this
code pretty much from the examples, so I'm wondering what is wrong. If a
timeout or select error occurs, what should I do? Is there something special
I must do f I want to use a select() timeout? Basically, it seems curl is
not recognizing that select() timed out, and is instead continuing to try
and connect.

Ideas?

Dominick Meglio
Received on 2004-04-21