Vitaly added the comment: In the work-around, we need to watch out for what 'man 2 read' on Mac OS refers to as "normal file":
== Upon successful completion, read(), readv(), and pread() return the number of bytes actually read and placed in the buffer. *The system guarantees to read the number of bytes requested if the descriptor references a normal file that has that many bytes left before the end-of-file*, but in no other case. == I am guessing that fstat() + S_ISREG() can be used to discern "normal files" from other types of file descriptors. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15896> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
