Giampaolo Rodola' added the comment: Because otherwise sendfile() fails with EAGAIN many times before sending any actual data. select() / poll() make sure the while loop awakens only when the socket is ready to be written (as opposed to continuously catching EAGAIN and wait for sendfile() to succeed).
---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13564> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
