[Python-Dev] socket.create_connection slow (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jan 15 00:47:01 CET 2009

Yet another "undefined" thing affecting us, Martin.

I think it's just another case of "Microsoft says it's undefined, even though the standards clearly specify what the behavior must be, and Microsoft managed to implement the behavior that not only violates the specification, but also hurts users of their systems." See Scott's analysis for why this is a case of such ignorance; I agree with this analysis, and many other people in the net also agree.

Regards, Martin

P.S. The sad thing is not that Microsoft makes mistakes; all system vendors do. The said thing is that they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes, and rather chose to persist the buggy implementation than risking backwards incompatibilities: somebody might rely on getting the connection only on the third attempt.

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