Eric Hohenstein added the comment:
I have ported the changes related to this problem from the 3.2 branch to the
2.6 version of socketmodule.c. The changes are attached as a diff from Python
2.6.2. The changes apply to all platforms but I've only tested them on Windows.
New submission from Eric Hohenstein :
This error is unfortunately difficult to reproduce. I've only seen it happen on
Windows XP running on a dual core VMWare VM. I haven't been able to reproduce
it on a non-VM system running Windows 7. The only way I've been able to
reprodu