> That was thorough :-) Seems OK though.
> 
> +    if (n < size) {
> +        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IOError, "failed to write all pollfds. "
> +                "Please, report in http://bugs.python.org/");
> 
> If n < size, it's not a Python error is it? I would say it's the OS's fault.

No, but it's a Python error if Python wrongly assumes that write() won't
return a partial result. Ideally write() should be retried in a loop
until everything is written out.