Re: [Fail2ban-users] [FIX] Re: Python 2.6 incompatibility / Unexpected communication error

[Cyril J. <cyr...@fa...>]

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> Just commited a workaround/fix (not clear to me) to make this problem go away. The bug is present in
> the 0.8 SVN branch, but not in trunk, as use_poll's kwarg for asyncore.loop() is by default False.
> 
> In the 0.8 svn branch we use use_poll=True. I changed it to use_poll=False, tested the code in an
> up-to-date Ubuntu distro with Python 2.6, and it works fine.
> 

I changed to poll() to workaround a "Unknown Error 514" bug (not clear
if it came from Python or Linux). Search the mailing list for "unknown
error 514" or look at [1].

So we should maybe only use select() if the Python version is higher
than 2.5 and stay with poll() for the previous versions.

Regards,

Cyril

[1]
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5d4bae840804250420v6359926ened2eaf234cf6d15d%40mail.gmail.com

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