M2Crypto: select() behaves weird on SSL sockets

[Irmen de Jong]

Ng Pheng Siong wrote:

 > Just wondering: Does your code look contrived structured the way you 
have?
 > IOW, will any (simple) change(s) to M2Crypto's interfaces make it more
 > natural to express what you wish in this case?

Well, I would appreciate a wrapper around select.select, one that
acts on SSL sockets the way I expected (from the man page of select).
That means: a select() wrapper that
1) works on regular files and sockets
2) works on SSL sockets
3) in the case of SSL sockets, honors the pending bytes that might still
    be available after a recv() (or send): don't block but return the
    socket in the 'read' or 'write' list if bytes are pending...

This would greatly simplify my socket reading/writing functions...


Irmen