bug#22789: 25.1.50; In last master build https connections stop working

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: a.s@realize.ch,  j_l_domenech@yahoo.com,  22789@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:33:43 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> >> Cc: a.s@realize.ch,  j_l_domenech@yahoo.com,  22789@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:33:08 +0100
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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".