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25.1.50; In last master build https connections stop working

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: j_l_domenech <at> yahoo.com, a.s <at> realize.ch, 22789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22789: 25.1.50;
 In last master build https connections stop working
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 20:41:03 +0200

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: a.s <at> realize.ch,  j_l_domenech <at> yahoo.com,  22789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:33:43 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> >> Cc: a.s <at> realize.ch,  j_l_domenech <at> yahoo.com,  22789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:33:08 +0100
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >>       /* If status of something has changed, and no input is
> >> >> 	 available, notify the user of the change right away.  After
> >> >> 	 this explicit check, we'll let the SIGCHLD handler zap
> >> >> 	 timeout to get our attention.  */
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> 
> >> > The comment above seems to explain what it does, no?
> >> 
> >> I don't understand it, or how it relates to calling pselect with a zero
> >> timeout.  :-)
> >
> > It wants to poll, so it sets the time-out at zero, meaning "don't wait
> > at all".  Or am _I_ missing something?
> 
> But why does it want to poll?

To "notify the user of the change right away".

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