[issue29386] select.epoll.poll may behave differently if timeout = -1 vs timeout = None

Gabriel McManus report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jan 30 04:55:36 EST 2017


Gabriel McManus added the comment:

As mentioned in [1], Illumos will be fixed to match Linux's behaviour, so this problem will go away. It may still be worth changing epoll to just send -1 though, in case this causes similar issues in other operating systems.

[1] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/issues/136

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