M2Crypto: select() behaves weird on SSL sockets

[Steve Holden]

"Kragen Sitaker" <kragen at pobox.com> wrote ...

[...Zope discussion...]
>
> I think Irmen was asking, if the data handle_write is going to write
> is generated in another thread, how does it get written to the output
> buffer?  Zope contains FIFOs, which look non-thread-safe to me but
> seem to work, that carry the data between threads.

Thanks for pointing this out. I was probably misinterpreting that part of
the post.

Now that you mention it, the data transfer mechanism between the producer
thread and the asynchronous loop doesn't actually look completely
thread-safe. It might be better to use a Queue rather than the home-rolled
fifo in the code, but that might be a little expensive per-thread. Maybe
asynchat needs a couple of code revisions as well as some documentation ...

regards
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