Stefan Zager <szager@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Oct 19, 2012 7:11 AM, "Shawn Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The issue with the current code is sometimes when libcurl is opening a >> CONNECT style connection through an HTTP proxy it returns a crazy high >> timeout (>240 seconds) and no fds. In this case Git waits forever. >> Stefan observed that using a timeout of 50 ms in this situation to >> poll libcurl is better, as it figures out a lot more quickly that it >> is connected to the proxy and can issue the request. > > Correct. Anecdotally, the zero-file-descriptor situation happens only once > per process invocation, so the risk of passing a too-long timeout to > select() is small. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html