On 26 February 2013 16:20, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
If APE's select does the same, it will be fine, without breaking Python's pipes.

"it will be fine" -- I meant X11 will be fine, since it's relying on closing a file descriptor in
one part of the program to cause EBADF in the select in another part, which will cause it
to check connections. But, but, why doesn't it just ... ?  Never mind, I don't think we need to work that out,
just behave in the same way as Linux select.