Hi, I'm building a multithreaded application and I encountered a tiny and annoying problem. I use a select to wait for data to be read from a socket, after some reads, the select simply blocks and stays that way until I close the connection on the other side of the socket. When the socket is closed on the writer end the select releases and then I get only empty strings from the socket. My question is this: Why did it block? The reading has never ended, every test I make I write 50 requests (wich are strings) to the socket and I have read the maximum of 34 requests. I'm using winPdb to take a closer look on what's happening and I see the threads blocked on this same select. If I send anything more through the socket, the select releases for a thread, despite the other data that is still unread.
This is the select: rd,w,e = select.select([self.rfd],[],[]) self.rfd is the fileno of the file object returned by the makefile method from the socket object. I know that's some buffer behavior that I'm missing but I don't know what it is. anything is helpfull, If I'm beeing stupid you can say it. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
