Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> > That's my opinion too. So, instead, of doing the above surgery inside
> > the IO stack, the SocketIO layer could detect the timeout and disallow
> > further access. What do you think?
> 
> So after a timeout occurs the file-object basically becomes worthless?
> Would it make sense to automatically call the close method of the
> file-object after this occurs?

Actually, we only need to forbid further reads (writes would always
work). I think we should still let the user call the close method
themselves.

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