2010/5/8 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net>: > On Sat, 8 May 2010 13:47:53 +0200 > Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Assuming loop() function does something like this: >> >> ... >> select.select(r, w, e, timeout) >> scheduler() # checks for scheduled calls to be fired >> ... >> >> ...imagine a case where there's a connection (aka a dispatcher >> instance) which does not receive or send any data *and* a scheduled >> call which is supposed to be fired after, say, 5 seconds. >> The entire loop would hang on select.select() which won't return for >> 30 seconds because the socket is not ready for reading and/or writing >> resulting in scheduler() be called too late. > > Well, obviously you have to change the timeout based on the delay for > the next scheduled call. If your patch doesn't do that, it probably > needs fixing :) > > Regards > > Antoine.
No it doesn't and I didn't consider this solution at the time. Thanks. =) --- Giampaolo http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib http://code.google.com/p/psutil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
