Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: A preliminary patch is in attachment. By default it uses select() but looks for ValueError (raised in case FD_SETSIZE gets hit) and falls back on using poll().
This is the failure I get when running tests on Linux. It is related to issue 3321 and I'm not sure what to do with it (remove the test maybe?). ====================================================================== FAIL: test_invalid_handles (__main__.TestInvalidHandle) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py", line 2852, in test_invalid_handles self.assertRaises((ValueError, IOError), conn.poll) AssertionError: (<class 'ValueError'>, <class 'OSError'>) not raised by poll ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27664/issue10527.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10527> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com