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Mon Mar 21 13:31:43 CET 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/052331.html

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:42 +0100, Peter Astrand wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Donovan Baarda wrote:
> 
> > > > The only ways to ensure that a select process does not block like this,
> > > > without using non-blocking mode, are;
> 
> > > 3) Use os.read / os.write.
> > [...]
> >
> > but os.read / os.write will block too.
> 
> No.
[...]

Hmmm... you are right... that changes things. Blocking vs non-blocking
becomes kinda moot if read/write will do partial writes in blocking
mode.

> fread() should loop internally on EAGAIN, in blocking mode.

Yeah, I was talking about non-blocking mode...

-- 
Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/

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[Python-Dev] Draft PEP to make file objects support non-blocking mode.