[Python-bugs-list] select module: Bug in select.select() (PR#365)

[guido@python.org]

>  The python 1.5.2 built on AIX 4.3.1.0 platform created a coredump when 
>  this command was run:-
>  
>        select.select(waitList, [], [], timeWait)
>  
>  This command worked fine in Python 1.5.1 build and also fine on Python
>  1.5.2 built on HP 10.2. It just didn't work in AIX 4.3.1.0 build on
>  2 AIX machines that we have. 

Could you give us some more information?  You're indicating that it's
platform specific; we don't have an AIX box.  I'm guessing it's not
obvious that our code is wrong, but it may violate some guidelines
given by AIX manuals.  If we ever want to fix this, we'll need to
interact with you.  the first thing we need is a decent stack trace;
we'll take it from there.

If you could investigate this on your own and come up with a fix, that
would probably the best solution...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)