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diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index 0591e94..324ea0a 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -371,12 +371,6 @@ have created a new socket to ``connect`` to someone else, put it in the potential_writers list. If it shows up in the writable list, you have a decent chance that it has connected. -One very nasty problem with ``select``: if somewhere in those input lists of -sockets is one which has died a nasty death, the ``select`` will fail. You then -need to loop through every single damn socket in all those lists and do a -``select([sock],[],[],0)`` until you find the bad one. That timeout of 0 means -it won't take long, but it's ugly. - Actually, ``select`` can be handy even with blocking sockets. It's one way of determining whether you will block - the socket returns as readable when there's something in the buffers. However, this still doesn't help with the problem of |