Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Le dimanche 21 novembre 2010 à 20:16 +0000, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > > > We are talking about the timeout feature, which is a Python feature, not > > a BSD (or Linux) sockets feature. It should work properly, even if that > > means adding some boilerplate around system calls. > > I agree that the semantics of the socket timeout API is confusing (and I > wish it had not been added in the first place). However, making it work > "better" must not cause breakage to other legitimate applications.
Well, I don't think setting a timeout on a listening socket and then expecting the socket received through accept() to be non-blocking (but only on BSD) is a legitimate application. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7995> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
