Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment:

> Because offsets can be negative 

On Linux (and presumably on all POSIX platforms) passing a negative offset 
results in EINVAL.

> In that case, there's a problem with the patch, since select can block
> arbitrarily long because it doesn't take the socket timeout into
> account.

Right. I will fix that.

> Also, apparently socket.sendall() doesn't retry on EAGAIN, 
> it doesn't use BEGIN_SELECT_LOOP.

socket.sendall() is not supposed to return EAGAIN in the first place. And 
again, I don't see how this is related with the issue at hand.

> I'm leaving this topic, you can do as you like...

Bye.

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