On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Alex Loukissas wrote:

>> Doesn't this simply "hang" for 1000 milliseconds and then it continues?
>
> No, it hangs for a couple minutes.

If a poll() call with a 1000ms second timeout argument can spend more than
1000 milliseconds until it returns, then I'd suggest there's a problem in
poll(). Don't you agree?

> It appears that what causes this issue is that both threads are trying to
> get the same URI at the same time and one starves the other.

Threads using independent libcurl handles have nothing shared and nothing in
libcurl will block any other libcurl-using thread.

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