New submission from STINNER Victor:
Since Linux 2.6.28, socket() syscall accepts a new SOCK_NONBLOCK flag in the
socket type. It avoids 1 or 2 extra syscalls to set the socket in non-blocking
mode. This flag comes also slowly in other operating systems: NetBSD, FreeBSD,
etc.
FreeBSD:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-March/042242.html
Discussion in the POSIX standard:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=411
Avoiding the syscalls has been proposed on python-dev a few months ago:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-January/123661.html
I tried to include SOCK_NONBLOCK in my PEP 446, but I have been asked to treat
it separatly because it's completly different than O_CLOEXEC (even it looks
similar).
http://hg.python.org/peps/file/fa873d5aed27/pep-0446.txt#l64
I also proposed to add 2 functions in the PEP:
* ``os.get_blocking(fd:int) - bool``
* ``os.set_blocking(fd:int, blocking: bool)``
I propose to add a new timeout parameter to socket.socket() constructor which
would set the timeout internal attribute and set O_NONBLOCK flag using the new
SOCK_NONBLOCK flag, ioctl() or fcntl() (depending on the OS and on what is
available).
I don't know if something special should be done on Windows for non-blocking
sockets? socket.socket.setblocking() already exists and I suppose that it works
on Windows :-) See also the discussion in my old PEP for non-blocking
operations in files on Windows:
http://hg.python.org/peps/file/fa873d5aed27/pep-0446.txt#l177
I don't know if the new parameter can just be added at the end of the parameter
list, or it should be a keyword-only parameter to avoid breakpoint backward
compatibility?
socket.socketpair() and socket.socket.dup() and socket.fromfd(),
socket.create_connection() (and more generally any function creating a new
socket) may also be modified.
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By the way, internal_setblocking() currently uses 2 fcntl() syscalls on Linux,
whereas it could be implemented with a single ioctl() syscall using FIONBIO.
Set O_NONBLOCK flag:
int flag = 1;
ioctl(fd, FIONBIO, flag);
Clear O_NONBLOCK flag:
int flag = 0;
ioctl(fd, FIONBIO, flag);
Tell me if you prefer a different issue for this optimization.
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messages: 204575
nosy: gvanrossum, haypo, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add a new optional timeout parameter to socket.socket() constructor
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5
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