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

[guido@python.org]

> Below is the dbx information from the coredump. This only occurs when the
> select.select() function is used within a thread. This same error occurs on
> both Python 1.5.1 and Python 1.5.2 when AIX 4.3.1. This problem does not
> occur on AIX 4.1.4.
> 
> $ dbx -I ./Modules ./python core
> Type 'help' for help.
> reading symbolic information ...
> [using memory image in core]
> 
> Segmentation fault in initselect at line 235 in file "Modules/selectmodule.c"
> ($t2)
>   235           PyObject *tout = Py_None;

Thanks.  Could you do this again and also type the "bt" (backtrace)
command?  That would perhaps be more helpful.  We can't reproduce this
here since we don't have access to AIX!  (Even if we ha,d it would be
low priority :-( ).

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