Hi, Recently I was bitten by an apparent bug in the BSD socket layer on Open VMS. Specifically, it appears that VMS defines MSG_WAITALL in socket.h but does not implement it (it is not in the documentation). And I use the socket.MSG_WAITALL flag on my recv() calls... and then they crash on OpenVMS.
I don't have access to an OpenVMS machine myself so could someone else that has (or has more knowledge of it) shed some light on it? This also raises the question to what extent Python itself should work around platform specific "peculiarities", such as this one. There's another problem with socket code on Windows and VMS systems, where you get strange exceptions when using a "too big" recv() buffer. Things like this force me into writing all sorts of error checking code or platform specific functions, to work around these bugs. Just for what was supposed to be a simple socket recv() and a simple socket send()... In my opinion Python's socket module itself could implement these workarounds. That would make user code a lot cleaner and less error prone, and more portable. What do other people think? Regards --Irmen de Jong -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
