M2Crypto possible intermittent bug

[John Nagle]

Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> John Nagle wrote:
>>     Still having trouble reproducing the problem. But somewhere,
>> something raised that bogus no-error exception three times.
>> Anything that returns "(0, 'Error')" as exception data is a bug.
> 
> If you can, build python and m2crypto with debug symbols, and place
> breakpoints in |case SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL| blocks (from _ssl.i). Then rerun
> the tests. That would be my first guess as to where these might be
> coming from.

    I don't have the right compiler to build it on Windows, and it
doesn't seem to be failing on Linux.  It failed three times during
one test run and hasn't failed since.  That makes me suspect an
uninitialized data problem in C code.  I'll try to reproduce the
problem.

				John Nagle