Socket module bug on OpenVMS

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Irmen de Jong a écrit :
> Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
> 
>> Which Python version, OpenVMS version, IP stack and stack version?
> 
> OpenVMS 7.3-2, Python 2.3.5, no idea about IP stack version.
> 
Thanks, may be upgrade to Python 2.5 will solve the problem.

>> If you think this is a Python on OpenVMS problem, send me a small
>> reproduced anf I will take a look.
> 
> I don't have any small case lying around (I can't reproduce it myself
> because I lack access to an openVMS machine) but I think you should
> be able to reproduce it by slightly altering one of the socket examples
> that comes with Python. Just add the MSG_WAITALL to the recv() call:
> 
>     something = sock.recv(somesize, socket.MSG_WAITALL)
> 
> and you should see it crash with a socket exception.
> 
Ok, I will try.

> Mail me offline if you still need running example code (that I think
> would expose the problem).
> 

Ok

>> If you think it's a OpenVMS problem and if you can provide a simple
>> reproducer and have a support contract I suggest you call HP, but I
>> suspect that if it's not documented the reply would be not (yet?)
>> supported.
> 
> I don't have anything to do with HP... the person that reported the
> problem to me has, however. He's already aware of the problem.
> 

You or the other person can also try to use

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=288


>> May be a workaround is to not use MSG_WAITALL (currently) on OpenVMS and
>> in next version I will not defined MSG_WAITALL in the socket module on
>> OpenVMS.
> 
> How can I detect that I'm running on OpenVMS?
> 
>
for example

import sys
print sys.platform
'OpenVMS'


JF