[Python-Dev] Socket timeout: reset timeout at each successful syscall?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:56:44 +0200
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The problem is that the socket.sendall() method may require multiple
> syscalls. In this case, does the timeout count for the total time or
> only for a single syscall? Asked differently: should we reset the
> timeout each time a syscall succeed?

From a user's point of view, it should count for the total time, IMO.
If people want a timeout for each syscall, they should call send()
iteratively.

Regards

Antoine.