Issue #18934: Use poll/select-based selectors for multiprocessing.Connection,

cf-natali · cf-natali · commit 45e255167eb8 · 2013-09-08T11:30:53.000+02:00
to avoid one extra FD per Connection.
diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -878,13 +878,21 @@ def wait(object_list, timeout=None):
 
     import selectors
 
+    # poll/select have the advantage of not requiring any extra file
+    # descriptor, contrarily to epoll/kqueue (also, they require a single
+    # syscall).
+    if hasattr(selectors, 'PollSelector'):
+        _WaitSelector = selectors.PollSelector
+    else:
+        _WaitSelector = selectors.SelectSelector
+
     def wait(object_list, timeout=None):
         '''
         Wait till an object in object_list is ready/readable.
 
         Returns list of those objects in object_list which are ready/readable.
         '''
-        with selectors.DefaultSelector() as selector:
+        with _WaitSelector() as selector:
             for obj in object_list:
                 selector.register(obj, selectors.EVENT_READ)
 
