Hi Giampaolo, Now that we're in quasi-freeze for 2.6.6 final, this is the kind of change I'd like to review before backporting. In this case, I'll let it through, but please check with me first next time. And thanks for your work! -Barry On Aug 04, 2010, at 10:58 AM, giampaolo.rodola wrote:

Author: giampaolo.rodola Date: Wed Aug 4 10:58:38 2010 New Revision: 83704

Log: Merged revisions 83703 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/release27-maint

........ r83703 | giampaolo.rodola | 2010-08-04 10:35:25 +0200 (mer, 04 ago 2010) | 1 line fix issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly (patch by Alexander Shigin) ........

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/ (props changed) python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/asyncore.py python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/ACKS python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/NEWS

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/asyncore.py ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/asyncore.py (original) +++ python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/asyncore.py Wed Aug 4 10:58:38 2010 @@ -422,8 +422,11 @@ self.handle_read()

def handle_connect_event(self): - self.connected = True + err = self.socket.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_ERROR) + if err != 0: + raise socket.error(err, _strerror(err)) self.handle_connect() + self.connected = True

def handle_write_event(self): if self.accepting:

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/ACKS ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/ACKS (original) +++ python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/ACKS Wed Aug 4 10:58:38 2010 @@ -817,3 +817,4 @@ Peter Åstrand Jesse Noller Fredrik Håård +Alexander Shigin

Modified: python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/NEWS ============================================================================== --- python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/NEWS (original) +++ python/branches/release26-maint/Misc/NEWS Wed Aug 4 10:58:38 2010 @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ Library -------

+- Issue #2944: asyncore doesn't handle connection refused correctly. + - Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to the interpreter executable. This fixes a failure of test_httpservers on OS X.