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  r73818 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-07-03 13:48:31 -0700 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  Adds the select.PIPE_BUF attribute to expose the system constant.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst
index 6dbf16f83472f10b29f744f5d6977ae7327fe46d..bffb9cba7581efb8c2d7e2082cd38126cfe53b06 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/select.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/select.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ The module defines the following:
       library, and does not handle file descriptors that don't originate from
       WinSock.
 
+.. attribute:: select.PIPE_BUF
+
+   Files reported as ready for writing by :func:`select`, :func:`poll` or
+   similar interfaces in this module are guaranteed to not block on a write
+   of up to :const:`PIPE_BUF` bytes.
+   This value is guaranteed by POSIX to be at least 512.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.7
+
 
 .. _epoll-objects:
 

diff --git a/Modules/selectmodule.c b/Modules/selectmodule.c
index 191296e0d9e9810df7683d599a8941f196eac577..085537513b2c26949508f151f9270716aad86d01 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/selectmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/selectmodule.c
@@ -1764,6 +1764,8 @@ PyInit_select(void)
        Py_INCREF(SelectError);
        PyModule_AddObject(m, "error", SelectError);
 
+       PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "PIPE_BUF", PIPE_BUF);
+
 #if defined(HAVE_POLL)
 #ifdef __APPLE__
        if (select_have_broken_poll()) {