[Python-Dev] noreply@sourceforge.net: [Python-bugs-list] [Bug #111620] lots of use of send() without verifyi ng amount of d

[Fredrik Lundh]

gordon wrote:
> Fredrik wrote:
>=20
> > fwiw, if "send" may send less than the full buffer in blocking
> > mode on some platforms (despite what the specification implies),
> > it's quite interesting that *nobody* has ever noticed before...
>=20
> I noticed, but I expected it, so had no reason to comment. The=20
> Linux man pages are the only specification of send that I've=20
> seen that don't make a big deal out it. And clearly I'm not the=20
> only one, otherwise there would never have been a bug report=20
> (he didn't experience it, he just noticed sends without checks).

I meant "I wonder why my script fails" rather than "that piece
of code looks funky".

:::

fwiw, I still haven't found a single reference (SUSv2 spec, man-
pages, Stevens, the original BSD papers) that says that a blocking
socket may do anything but sending all the data, or fail.

if that's true, I'm not sure we really need to "fix" anything here...

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