[Python-Dev] Re: Patch for long-standing bug in socket module (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed May 26 12:13:25 EDT 2004

"Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve" <rwgk at cci.lbl.gov> wrote in message news:200405260431.i4Q4V32m195543 at boa.lbl.gov...

On May 22 I submitted a patch to fix this long-standing bug:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=728330&group_id=5470&atid=105470 My hope was that this fix will make it into Python 2.3.4 final\

As AB explained, that was already too late.

Python as distributed is near useless under SGI's IRIX because the socket module doesn't compile. My patch fixes this problem. The danger of introducing undesirable side effects is minimal because all changed are surrounded by very specific #ifdef's. I've tested the patch under three different OS levels with three different compiler versions.

Perhaps you can make available the 2.3.4 source with this patch and/or your set of IRIX binaries (with the usual no-guarantee license). Then ask for a listing on http://www.python.org/download/download_other.html

Terry J. Reedy

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