[issue6397] Implementing Solaris "/dev/poll" in the "select" module

[Jesús Cea Avión]

Jesús Cea Avión <jcea at jcea.es> added the comment:

New changeset. The only change is:

"""
diff --git a/Modules/selectmodule.c b/Modules/selectmodule.c
--- a/Modules/selectmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/selectmodule.c
@@ -685,8 +685,16 @@
         return -1;
     }
     if (n < size) {
-        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "failed to write all pollfds. "
-                "Please, report in http://bugs.python.org/");
+        /*
+        ** Data writed to /dev/poll is a binary data structure. It is not
+        ** clear what to do if a partial write occurred. For now, raise
+        ** an exception and see if we actually found this problem in
+        ** the wild.
+        */
+        PyErr_Format(PyExc_IOError, "failed to write all pollfds. "
+                "Please, report at http://bugs.python.org/. "
+                "Data to report: Size tried: %d, actual size written: %d",
+                size, n);
         return -1;
     }
     return 0;
"""

If there are no disagreements, I will commit to default (3.3) soon (in a few hours/a day).

Thanks!.

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