[New-bugs-announce] [issue9851] multiprocessing socket timeout will break client

[hume]

New submission from hume <humeafo at gmail.com>:

when use multiprocessing managers, while use socket to communicate between server process and client process, if I used the global socket timeout feature(no matter how large the value is) the client will always say

  File "c:\python27\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 149, in Client
    answer_challenge(c, authkey)
  File "c:\python27\lib\multiprocessing\connection.py", line 383, in answer_challenge
    message = connection.recv_bytes(256)         # reject large message
IOError: [Errno 10035] 

this is not reasonable, because this behaviour will make subprocess unable to use socket's timeout features globally.

Another question is line 138 in managers.py:
        # do authentication later
        self.listener = Listener(address=address, backlog=5)
        self.address = self.listener.address

backlog=5 will accept only 5 cocurrent connections, this is stupid, you'd better make this a argument that can be specified by user

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 116375
nosy: hume
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: multiprocessing socket timeout will break client
versions: Python 2.7

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