Bugs item #1705393, was opened at 2007-04-22 13:38
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Ron Garret (rongarret)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Select() failure (race condition)
Initial Comment:
select.select fails on file-like objects created by socket.makefile when data
exists in the file buffer but not in the underlying socket.
Here is code to reproduce the bug. Run it, then point a web browser at port
8080 and observer that select times out indicating that no input is available
even though input is still in fact available.
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from SocketServer import *
from socket import *
from select import select
class myHandler(StreamRequestHandler):
def handle(self):
while 1:
sl = select([self.rfile],[],[],1)[0]
print sl
l = self.rfile.readline()
if len(l)<3: break
print l,
pass
print>>self.wfile, 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK'
print>>self.wfile, 'Content-type: text/plain'
print>>self.wfile
print>>self.wfile, 'foo'
server = TCPServer(('',8080), myHandler)
server.serve_forever()
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>Comment By: Ron Garret (rongarret)
Date: 2007-04-22 23:00
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>Just removing the select() call works fine.
For this simple example yes, not for more complicated cases. My
particular application is a transparent HTTP proxy which needs to be able
to serve multiple connections at once and handle keep-alive connections.
(The proxy connects to local server processes through unix sockets, which
is why I can't use a regular HTTP proxy. Send me email if you want more
details about why I'm doing this.) Without writing a full-blown HTTP-aware
proxy, select (or something like it) is necessary.
Upon further study, though, I have come to the conclusion that this is not
actually a bug (since select is doing what it is advertised to do), just
very counter-intituitive behavior. If select is going to accept file
objects as arguments it ought to do the Right Thing with them IMO.
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Comment By: Gabriel Genellina (gagenellina)
Date: 2007-04-22 21:53
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The handler should not do its own select() call. (And even then, select
should use the underlying socket, not the wrapping pseudo-file object).
Just removing the select() call works fine.
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