On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, vick wrote:

> There's both multi_socket and multi_perform interfaces. I am not clear as to
> which is better or not and which one to use in which circumstances. There's
> no discussion, but there's a simplistic example of curl_multi_perform.

I've tried to describe both functions in their respective man pages.

There's a section in libcurl-multi.3 dedicated to the multi_socket API but it
is really lacking contents...

> In any case some digression/explanation of multi_socket and its scenarios
> would be useful.

It basically depends on if you want to run your app event-based (multi_socket)
or more traditionally select()-based (multi_perform).

Please ask specific questions if there are details that are still unclear.

> Also, some code illustrating the below calls would be great.

The hiperfifo.c example displays one use of the multi_socket API. But sure, I
too would welcome more good examples.

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