gnutls_record_recv() hangs

[Dinh Le]

Thank you Sam for the insightful reply.  Now I understand why the imap 
protocol wants all requests to begin with some symbol (name-value) that 
can be incremented so that the responses can be paired easier with the
corresponding requests on the client side.

Using select() seems to make the solution much more complicated than it 
should.  Some web servers simply fork(), read, buffer, process, write, and 
repeat.  Wow, this method is cleaner but can be much more expensive.

OK, I will have to experiment and read further.

Thank you all.

Dinh