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Emulates the UNIX socketpair() system call on Windows. This function uses a trick with non-blocking sockets to prevent the need for a thread. A socketpair can be used as a full-duplex, select()able pipe on Windows.
def socketpair(family=socket.AF_INET, type=socket.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0):
"""Emulate the Unix socketpair() function on Windows."""
# We create a connected TCP socket. Note the trick with setblocking(0)
# that prevents us from having to create a thread.
lsock = socket.socket(family, type, proto)
lsock.bind(('localhost', 0))
lsock.listen(1)
addr, port = lsock.getsockname()
csock = socket.socket(family, type, proto)
csock.setblocking(0)
try:
csock.connect((addr, port))
except socket.error, e:
if e.errno != errno.WSAEWOULDBLOCK:
raise
ssock, addr = lsock.accept()
csock.setblocking(1)
lsock.close()
return (ssock, csock)
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geertj commented Mar 19, 2016

@mhills thank you!

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Is this gist considered public domain?

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openalmeida commented Jul 21, 2020

Hi,

I am come from Python's socket module of a similar function socketpair() to this one.
Which has a URL refer to here.

Would anyone tell me, why socketpair requires a socket status back to blocked.
Namely, What the setblocking(1) at the last is used for ?

As I can understand the Event Loop of Python Asyncio is socketpair (with select/epoll/...) based,
but Python Asyncio works fine (nonblocked), thus confused me about setblocking(1).

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hrieke commented Sep 28, 2020

Hello,

Could you please supply a license for your code?
(It's found in Python's socket.py,
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/socketserver.py
which is why I am asking)
Thanks!

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ell1e commented Oct 30, 2020

<removed for now, will relink later>

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ell1e commented Jul 30, 2024

Since the problem is public now, the above gist has a security issue in that with the right timing, an attacker can take over the connection: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3219 Therefore, I would advise against using it. My apologies that it took so long for this to become public. The fix is to verify that the connection obtained is actually the corresponding one that was meant to connect, like done here: python/cpython#122134

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hrieke commented Jul 31, 2024

Thank you @ell1e for sending this information out.
@geertj License?

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