asyncore: suggested patch

[Panu A Kalliokoski]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
> Well, a general communications abstraction which offers an abstract possibility
> which can be satisfied by a variety of possibly futures would be useful. For
> example, the possibility of interest in this particular case could be satisified by
> either the delivery of the data or arrival of the maximum time of delivery.

The selecting package handles this by event queues which get to define the 
select() timeout.

> This is a generalization of a very old design pattern.

Yup. In my ideal OS, one could do select() / poll() on anything, because
it's a nice way to handle this problem of synchronous multiplexing I/O 
with scheduled events.

Panu Kalliokoski