[issue9090] Error code 10035 calling socket.recv() on a socket with a timeout (WSAEWOULDBLOCK - A non-blocking socket operation could not be completed immediately)

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Unfortunately, select doesn't necessarily update the timeout variable
> with the remaining time, so we can't rely on this. This would mean
> having the select enclosed within gettimeofday and friends, which
> seems a bit overkill...

Well, given the general cost of Python function calls and bytecode
interpretation, it would probably not be much of a runtime overhead. So
it's mainly some additional, not very exciting code to write :-)

(luckily, in 3.2 we have a cross-platform gettimeofday() abstraction in
pytime.h which will ease things quite a bit)

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