On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Vishakha Vaidya wrote:

> If I avoid both curl_multi_fdset(multi_handle, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep,
> &maxfd); and select(maxfd+1, &fdread, &fdwrite, &fdexcep, &timeout); Just
> use curl_multi_perform(multi_handle, &still_running); the code works, is
> that the right way to do it?

No. You want curl_multi_fdset() to figure out what to wait for, but if there's
nothing to wait for you can/should just wait a short while instead of calling
select().

Further desrcibed in the man page:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_multi_fdset.html

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