[issue7995] On Mac / BSD sockets returned by accept inherit the parent's FD flags
Antoine Pitrou
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Wed Mar 30 17:40:54 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> I also don't think there is a portable way to detect the NBIO attribute
> of a socket, so we still have a case of socket.gettimeout() not
> accurately reflecting the blocking state of the socket
Which case?
> I personally think that this logic should go into socketmodule.c where
> the rest of the timeout logic sits, rather than be exctracted like this
> out into the python world.
I think practicality beats purity. If putting it in socket.py ends up producing bugs, we'll have to consider moving it to the C extension. Until then, the Python code has the advantage of being clear and concise.
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