$NetBSD: patch-ba,v 1.1 2010/11/23 08:24:04 tron Exp $

Fix for CVE-2010-3492, taken from the Python SVN repository:

http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=86084

--- Doc/library/asyncore.rst.orig	2010-05-19 15:14:45.000000000 +0100
+++ Doc/library/asyncore.rst	2010-11-22 18:11:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -211,10 +211,13 @@
    .. method:: accept()
 
       Accept a connection.  The socket must be bound to an address and listening
-      for connections.  The return value is a pair ``(conn, address)`` where
-      *conn* is a *new* socket object usable to send and receive data on the
-      connection, and *address* is the address bound to the socket on the other
-      end of the connection.
+      for connections.  The return value can be either ``None`` or a pair
+      ``(conn, address)`` where *conn* is a *new* socket object usable to send
+      and receive data on the connection, and *address* is the address bound to
+      the socket on the other end of the connection.
+      When ``None`` is returned it means the connection didn't take place, in
+      which case the server should just ignore this event and keep listening
+      for further incoming connections.
 
 
    .. method:: close()
@@ -224,6 +227,12 @@
       flushed).  Sockets are automatically closed when they are
       garbage-collected.
 
+.. class:: dispatcher_with_send()
+
+   A :class:`dispatcher` subclass which adds simple buffered output capability,
+   useful for simple clients. For more sophisticated usage use
+   :class:`asynchat.async_chat`.
+
 .. class:: file_dispatcher()
 
    A file_dispatcher takes a file descriptor or file object along with an
@@ -240,7 +249,7 @@
    socket for use by the :class:`file_dispatcher` class.  Availability: UNIX.
 
 
-.. _asyncore-example:
+.. _asyncore-example-1:
 
 asyncore Example basic HTTP client
 ----------------------------------
@@ -250,7 +259,7 @@
 
    import asyncore, socket
 
-   class http_client(asyncore.dispatcher):
+   class HTTPClient(asyncore.dispatcher):
 
        def __init__(self, host, path):
            asyncore.dispatcher.__init__(self)
@@ -274,6 +283,45 @@
            sent = self.send(self.buffer)
            self.buffer = self.buffer[sent:]
 
-   c = http_client('www.python.org', '/')
 
+   client = HTTPClient('www.python.org', '/')
    asyncore.loop()
+
+.. _asyncore-example-2:
+
+asyncore Example basic echo server
+----------------------------------
+
+Here is abasic echo server that uses the :class:`dispatcher` class to accept
+connections and dispatches the incoming connections to a handler::
+
+    import asyncore
+    import socket
+
+    class EchoHandler(asyncore.dispatcher_with_send):
+
+        def handle_read(self):
+            data = self.recv(8192)
+            self.send(data)
+
+    class EchoServer(asyncore.dispatcher):
+
+        def __init__(self, host, port):
+            asyncore.dispatcher.__init__(self)
+            self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+            self.set_reuse_addr()
+            self.bind((host, port))
+            self.listen(5)
+
+        def handle_accept(self):
+            pair = self.accept()
+            if pair is None:
+                pass
+            else:
+                sock, addr = pair
+                print 'Incoming connection from %s' % repr(addr)
+                handler = EchoHandler(sock)
+
+    server = EchoServer('localhost', 8080)
+    asyncore.loop()
+