Tim Peters wrote:
> The code in selectmodule when _MSC_VER is _not_ defined complains if a
> socket fd is >= FD_SETSIZE _or_ is < 0. But the new code in
> socketmodule on non-Windows boxes is happy with negative fds, saying
> "fine" whenever fd < FD_SETSIZE. Is that right or wrong?
I think it is right: the code just "knows" that negative values
cannot happen. The socket handles originate from system calls
(socket(2), accept(2)), and a negative value returned there is
an error. However, the system might (and did) return handles
larger than FD_SETSIZE (as the kernel often won't know what
value FD_SETSIZE has).
> "The answer" isn't so important to me as that this kind of crap always
> happens when platform-specific logic ends up getting defined in
> multiple modules. Much better to define macros to hide this junk,
> exactly once; pyport.h is the natural place for it.
That must be done carefully, though. For example, how should
the line
max = 0; /* not used for Win32 */
be treated? Should we introduce a
#define Py_SELECT_NUMBER_OF_FDS_PARAMETER_IS_IRRELEVANT?
Regards,
Martin
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