[Python-Dev] Socket Timeouts patch 1519025 (original) (raw)

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Jul 23 19:26:59 CEST 2006

I request a review of my patch (1519025) to get socket timeouts to work properly with errors and signals. I don't expect this patch would make it into 2.5, but perhaps it could be in 2.5.1, as it fixes a long-standing bug. I know that people are busy with getting 2.5 out the door, but it would be helpful for me to know if my current patch is OK before I start on another patch to make socket timeouts more useful. There is also a version of the patch for 2.4, which would make yum nicer in Fedora 4 and 5, and I think that passing a review would make the patch more acceptable to Fedora's maintainers.

My next patch will, if it works, make socket timeouts easier to use per-thread, allow for the timing of entire operations rather than just timing transaction phases, allow for setting an acceptable rate for file transfers, and should be completely backward compatible, in that old code would be unaffected and new code would work as well as possible now on older unpatched versions. That's my plan, anyway. It would build on my current patch, at least in its principles.

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