[Python-Dev] test_pty.py hangs in verbose mode on Mac OS X?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Apr 13, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:

> Likely differing buffering behavior.  Prior to Linux 2.6, the pipe
> implementation allowed only a single buffer (that is, the bytes from
> a single write call) in a pipe at a time, and blocked subsequent
> writes until that buffer was read.  Recently this has changed to allow
> multiple buffers up to 4k total length, so multiple short writes won't
> block anymore.  OS X may have some other buffering behavior which is
> causing writes to block where they don't on Linux.  All these details
> are left to the platform, and there are a variety of behaviors which
> can be considered valid.
>
> Of course, I don't actually /know/ the cause of the problem here, but
> this explanation seems plausible to me, and I'd investigate it before
> looking for platform-specific pty bugs (although OS X is a good  
> platform
> on which to go looking for those ;).

Seems plausible to me too.  If I change the child writes to > 4000  
bytes, Linux w/2.6 kernel will block too.

I'm going to change the test_pty.py code to read from the master_fd.   
You have to wrap the read in a try/except to catch the OSError input/ 
output error you'll get on Linux when you read past the end of the  
buffer and the child process has already exited.

Thanks,
- -Barry

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