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Ok, I'll attach a patch that uses poll when available
(HAVE_POLL is already being set by the configure stuff
appropriately).

It replaces one of the two uses of select() (specifically,
the internal_select() function) in socketmodule.c. The other
is win32-specific, so replacing it with poll() wouldn't make
sense.

greg: epoll/kevent don't make sense for replacing the use of
select/poll in this particular case - socketmodule.c always
selects/polls precisely one file descriptor.

I've tested this locally, and it fixes the problem
(linux/x86). I don't have a windows system to test it on,
but it shouldn't change behaviour in any way for windows.