In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Now my observation on FC4 ( kernel version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
>"select()" can return before timeout with a
>"Interrupted system call" (EINTR) error,
Nothing Red-Hat-specific, or even Linux-specific, about this. It's a
standard *nix thin
When using socket.socket.settimeout we normally only guard against
"socket.timeout" exception.Now the implementation of "settimeout" in
"Python-2.4.3/Modules/socketmodule.c" sets the socket fd to
nonblocking and uses "select()" to timeout
as seen below in line 1487 and 1386 :
static PyObject *
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