even when we get a single connection to deal with, we must still check for

         last */

      singlesocket(multi, data->set.one_easy);

    *running_handles = multi->num_alive;

    /* or should we fall-through and do the timer-based stuff? */

    return result;

    /* Now we fall-through and do the timer-based stuff, since we don't want

       to force the user to have to deal with timeouts as long as at least one

       connection in fact has traffic. */

  }

  /*