Richard Oudkerk added the comment: According to Alan Cox
It's a design decision and a huge performance win. It's one of the areas where POSIX read in its strictest form cripples your performance. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/18/103 > (For write ready, you can obviously have "spurious" notifications if > you try to write more than what is available in the output socket > buffer). Wouldn't you just get a partial write (assuming an AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM socket)? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16507> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com