Bug in select

[Erik Max Francis]

Ron Garret wrote:

> Geez you people are picky.  Since I ran this several times I ran into 
> the TIM_WAIT problem.  Here's the actual transcript:

It's not about being picky, it's about making it clear what your problem 
is.  You're now describing an entirely different problem, hence why it's 
important to be clear about _precisely_ what it is you're doing and 
_precisely_ what's happening that you think that's wrong.

> Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar  1 2007, 10:09:05) 
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from socket import *
>>>> from select import select
>>>> s=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
>>>> s.bind(('',8080))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<string>", line 1, in bind
> socket.error: (48, 'Address already in use')
>>>> s.bind(('',8081))
>>>> s.listen(5)
>>>> f = s.accept()[0].makefile()
>>>> f.readline()
> '123\r\n'
>>>> select([f],[],[],1)
> ([], [], [])
>>>> f.readline()
> '321\r\n'


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