[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

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[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Brian Vandenberg added the comment: I accidentally hit submit too early. I tried changing the code in posixmodule.c to use lseek(), something like the following: offset = lseek( in, 0, SEEK_CUR ); do { ret = sendfile(...); } while( ... ); lseek( in, offset, SEEK_SET ); ... however, in

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Brian Vandenberg added the comment: Christian, you did exactly what I needed. Thank you. I don't have the means to do a git bisect to find where it broke. It wasn't a problem around 3.3 timeframe and I'm not sure when this sendfile stuff was implemented. The man page for sendfile says

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I am not sure how to get this bug fixed (...) Someone has to write a fix. You may contact Solaris vendor or a company using Solaris who wants to pay a developer to write a fix. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Christian Heimes added the comment: What do you expect us to do? No Python core dev has access to a Solaris machine. We cannot debug the issue and have to rely on external contributions. We have not declared Solaris as unsupported yet because people are still contributing fixes. If you are

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Brian Vandenberg added the comment: Solaris will be around for at least another 10-15 years. The least you could do is look into it and offer some speculations. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Dennis Clarke added the comment: Well here we are in 2020 and Solaris systems are still running just fine. In fact, some big Fujitsu SPARC systems are running in production for years and years and also, no surprise, this test still fails horrifically on old stable Solaris 10. Python is

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

STINNER Victor added the comment: Since it seems like Solaris is dying, I'm not sure that it still makes sense to fix Python issues specific to Solaris. Here, I don't understand the issue, no patch is proposed and I'm not really interested to investigate :-/ -- nosy: +haypo

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Peter added the comment: Getting the same test_socket errors on Solaris 11 with Python 3.5.3. == ERROR: testCount (test.test_socket.SendfileUsingSendfileTest)

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

Jim Crigler added the comment: I'm having the same problem with gcc 6.2. Is there any update? -- nosy: +Jim Crigler ___ Python tracker ___

[issue29269] test_socket failing in solaris

New submission from Brian Vandenberg: I started looking into this failure to see if I could figure out why but it looks like I'd have to spend more time than I have available to figure out the cause. Environment/setup: * air-gapped network (no internet access) * sparc / Solaris 10 * Built