Sept. 24, 2002
2:56 p.m.
I'm trying to fix selectmodule.c on Windows (it raises bogus exceptions, because select() on Windows does not set errno).
Are you *sure* about that?
Yes.
MSDN:
The select function returns the total number of socket handles that are ready and contained in the fd_set structures, zero if the time limit expired, or SOCKET_ERROR if an error occurred. If the return value is SOCKET_ERROR, WSAGetLastError can be used to retrieve a specific error code.
Argh! So select() has never returned proper return values on Windows. :-( Thanks for fixing this. Are you gonna fix it in 2.2.2 as well as 2.3? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)