On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I think this is because you're using the default (synchronous) name resolver
> within libcurl, and during the name resolving libcurl has no socket handler
> to "export". As soon as the resolving is done, libcurl creates a socket and
> then it _can_ return something in curl_multi_fdset.

No, I'm wrong. During the name resolve the curl_multi_perform() will actually
block... Thinking further about this, I can't really explain it. I guess I
need to do some tests of my own first to understand what you're describing...

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