[issue13564] ftplib and sendfile()

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> After digging a bit further it seems EAGAIN occurs in case a timeout was previously 
> set against the socket as in ftplib.FTP(..., timeout=2) (at least on Linux, FWICT).

Ah, indeed. That's because socket timeout makes the underlying fd non-blocking.
Which means there probably should be a higher-level sendfile() facility for sockets, taking into account the socket timeout...

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