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Closing a socket does not clear the fileno
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Description
To reproduce:
import _socket
s = _socket.socket()
s.close()
assert s.fileno() == -1
Causes failures in test_socket and test_socketserver.
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Research direction
Start with the _socket.socket close and fileno behavior shown in the reproduction, then run the affected test_socket and test_socketserver tests to observe the failures. Done means a closed socket reports fileno() as -1 and both tests pass.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, python
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100