Scott Dial wrote: > This begs the question then whether the check that is implemented has > any relevance to any platform other than Linux. I am no portability > guru, but I have to think there are other platforms where this patch > will cause problems.
The patch is right on all platforms conforming to the POSIX standard. POSIX says that FD_ISSET and friends have undefined behaviour if the file descriptor is larger than FD_SETSIZE. For platforms not conforming to the POSIX standard, the patch errs on the conservative side: it refuses to do something that POSIX says has undefined behaviour, yet may be well-defined on that platform. Disabling this for Windows is fine with me; I also think there should be some kind of documentation that quickly shows the potential cause of the exception Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
