Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Only one reader can read a socket safely at any given time so mutual >> exclusion is needed. >> >> If you read "too much," the excess can be put in the application's read >> buffer where it is available for whoever wants to process the next >> message. > > Which works only if you have a single concept of "application's read > buffer".
Well, the socket's read buffer. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list