akira added the comment: > Also, Richard Oudkerk's claims above about not needing to use fcntl to swap > flags is not correct. It's necessary to not block on reading, even if select > is used. Select just guarantees that there is at least 1 byte or a closed > handle, not that your full read will complete.
On Linux, `fcntl` is not necessary if you use `os.read(pipe, bufsize)` after `select` instead of `pipe.read(bufsize)`. `os.read` may just return less than `bufsize` bytes if they are not available. ---------- nosy: +akira _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1191964> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
