[Python-3000] socket makefile bug

[Guido van Rossum]

The docs are out of date, we don't dup() any more (that was needed
only because we were using fdopen()). But what *should* happen is that
when you close the file object the socket is still open. The socket
wrapper's close() method should be fixed. I can look into that later
today.

On 8/3/07, Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I'm looking into httplib problems on the struni branch.  One
> unexpected problem is that socket.makefile() is not behaving
> correctly. The docs say "The file object references a dup()ped version
> of the socket file descriptor, so the file object and socket object
> may be closed or garbage-collected independently."  In Python 3000,
> the object returned by makefile is no a dup()ped versoin of the file
> descriptor.  If I close the socket, I close the file returned by
> makefile().
>
> I can dig into the makefile() problem, but I thought I'd mention in
> the hopes that someone else thinks its easy to fix.
>
> Jeremy
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