On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Brian Makin wrote:

> In these slower cases, the suggested timeout starts as 1 ms, but then
> changes to -1 ms. According to the manpage, the -1 indicates that curl has
> no good suggestable timeout. The modified example code falls back to 1000 ms
> in this case.

What if you make the fallback to be 1 ms instead? In the situation where
there's no file descriptor to wait for, it will of course wait for the full
time period you set...

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