I have an existing event loop and other events I need to handle so I was planning to use external select mode. However I'm surprised that MHD_get_fdset is the only way to get the set of file descriptors.
It seems pointless to have MHD loop over its file descriptors constructing an fdset and then I have to loop over the fdset to pick out the file descriptors to add them to the event loop handler (which preferentially uses epoll, kqueue, or poll). I'm not expecting a large pool of web connections, in fact I would rarely have more than one concurrent connection however there are a lot of file descriptors used elsewhere in the application so the maximum fd number might actually be large. fd_sets are a particularly impractical api for this. -- greg
