[issue17443] imaplib.IMAP4_stream subprocess is opened unbuffered but ignores short reads

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[issue17443] imaplib.IMAP4_stream subprocess is opened unbuffered but ignores short reads

Diane Trout added the comment: So as a first stab at fixing this. I modified imaplib to wrap the process.stdin / process.stdout from with io.BufferedWriter / io.BufferedReader. I didn't use the TextIOWrapper as the imaplib wanted to work with the raw \r\n. The change seems to have fixe

[issue17443] imaplib.IMAP4_stream subprocess is opened unbuffered but ignores short reads

Diane Trout added the comment: After bumping into r.david.murray in the elevator I got the impression setting the bufsize argument to the Popen call would be a better idea. I found that BufferedReader/Writer were using a DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE set somewhere in the c part of io. To cut down on