[issue30844] selectors: Add exceptional urgent data event

2017-07-04 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: I don't know anything about OOB data, so I continue to add more pointers :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_data "Out of band data is a logically independent transmission channel between a pair of connected stream sockets." --

[issue30844] selectors: Add exceptional urgent data event

2017-07-04 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/tcp.7.html Sockets API TCP provides limited support for out-of-band data, in the form of (a single byte of) urgent data. In Linux this means if the other end sends newer out-of-band data the older u

[issue30844] selectors: Add exceptional urgent data event

2017-07-04 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: > To be able to use GPIO Sysfs Interface on our embedded platforms we require > exceptional event support. Antoine Pitrou noticed that "exception" term can be confusion in Python, since exceptions are like "raise ValueError(...)". The manual page mentions "ou

[issue30844] selectors: Add exceptional urgent data event

2017-07-04 Thread Pim Klanke
Changes by Pim Klanke : -- title: selectors: add_excepter(), 3rd argument of select.select() -> selectors: Add exceptional urgent data event ___ Python tracker ___ _