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On Aug  3 09:22, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:52:21PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug  3 12:29, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> > > On 03/08/2011 08:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >[snip]
> > > >
> > > >Can you have a look and, perhaps, provide a new python with a bigger
> > > >internal FD_SETSIZE?  The 256 from /usr/include/python2.6/pyport.h
> > > >would already be ok, I guess, but 512 or so wouldn't hurt either...
> > > 
> > > fwiw, I already reported this problem with a patch to fix it at [1].
> > > 
> > > [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00651.html
> > 
> > Indeed.  Huh, even the testcase is the same.  Apparently Jason also
> > forgot about it.  Jason?  Ping?
> 
> The thread is a little more involved which is why I thought it was the
> WFMO limitation.  See the following for the details, if interested:
> 
>     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/threads.html#00651
> 
> Anyway, I will add this patch to the next Cygwin Python build.

Thanks.  Any chance to get this soon?  This is a really problematic
limitation.


Corinna

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