Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I'm wondering how would it be possible then to fetch packets of an unknown > size without using an extremely big buffer.
IP packets are limited to 64K, so just pass a 64K buffer, that's not "extremely big". If you really wanted to avoid this, you could try the FIONREAD ioctl, but I wouldn't advise it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21819> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
