[Infrastructures] ISconf: Cache.py - bcast method

[Ceri Davies]

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:21:08AM +0100, Tarjei.Jensen@akerkvaerner.com wr=
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>=20
> Jordan Curzon wrote:
> > Keeps crashing on me on the last line of the bcast method in Cache.py.
> > It throws a socket.error exception with the EAGAIN error. I
> > did some looking and other places in the code ignore that
> > error. I trapped the exception and everything runs fine.
> >
> > Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding things.
>=20
> EAGAIN just means that your script have been waiting/listening to a
> socket for so long that the operating system have decided that you have
> waited long enough.

Or more generally, that the operation failed due to a resource shortage,
but might work if retried.

> It is one of the design faults in Unix. They moved a system problem into
> the user domain instead of solving it in the kernel.

Allowing the user to decide what to do next makes perfect sense to me.
The other option is to have a default action which we'd all be
complaining about the existence of. :)

Ceri
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

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