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Martin, I'm working on an update to this patch so that it
will finally get fixed.  I have a question about your answer
to #4.  You say that errno is read "much too late", but
that's the same way that errorhandler() does it, and it
seems acceptable there.  I don't see any calls in between
that would trash errno (at least after my patch is applied
:).  Is there really a problem?  I do have it fixed, by
returning errno from internal_select(), but if it isn't
needed I'd like to simplify the patch.

BTW, I'm handling #1 (internal_connect()).  There is still
more work to do -- I think that it would be better to handle
Ctl-C as the interpreter does on its periodic checks, so
that it becomes KeyboardInterrupt instead of some other
error with a ' (4, ' in it.  Umm, I need to do more research
on that.