New submission from Chris Siebenmann :
The easiest reproduction of this is:
import tarfile
tarfile.open("/dev/zero", "r:")
(If you use plain "r" you get a hang in attempted lzma decoding.)
I believe this is probably due to a missing 'elif
New submission from Chris Siebenmann:
socket.fromfd() requires you to supply at least the family and type of
the file descriptor that you are turning into a Python socket object.
However the socket module provides no documented way to determine what
these actually are and there are any number of
Chris Siebenmann added the comment:
As far as I know, you can recover everything except the protocol
portably on Unix (and fromfd() will already handwave the protocol).
getsockopt() with SO_TYPE will give you the type. The family can be
recovered by calling getsockname() with a plain struct
