[Python-Dev] timeoutsocket patch (original) (raw)

Bernard Yue bernie@3captus.com
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:14:44 -0600

Michael Gilfix wrote:

Hmm, how do you poll sockets on OS/2 then? If there is some way, then maybe that hack should go into the select library (the select library treats sockets specially as polleable objects). Perhaps I should rework the patch so that use of select is avoided if either the import fails or the timeout is None. But (and maybe Guido will offer his opinion here), I'd like to hold out to see if it really is the case that some system doesn't support a select equivalent for sockets. -- Mike

Just found http://www.ia.amu.edu.pl/edm2/0401/socket3.html on the web. The documentation above mentioned select() support in IBM TCP/IP development toolkit for OS/2. So maybe OS/2 support select(). I remember TCP/IP support for OS/2 comes as an optional package of IBM LAN Manager client, back in 94-95. Am I correct, Andrew? Anyway, since you have access to OS/2, can you help us to dig in a bit?

Bernie

On Mon, Apr 29 @ 08:12, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > Thanks. The EMX runtime library supports select() on sockets; I don't > believe that native OS/2 has select() at all, but can't confirm.

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