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Subject: Re: py-bittorrent/twistedCore broken on 8.0?
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Andrew MacIntyre wrote:

>> i.e. just it is getting exceptions when doing nothing at all, so it 
>> seems to be completely broken.
>>
>> Have you tried this, or do you know where to begin looking at what 
>> might be wrong?
> 
> I know very little about Twisted, but I seem to recall that it offers
> a range of different reactors; if you can find where in bittorrent its
> deciding to use the kqreactor, you might be able to force it to use an
> alternate reactor (such as one based on select() or poll()).
> 
> If you can change the reactor and get something that works, that would
> suggest some issue with the kqreactor, at least on 8.x.
> 

Yeah, I tried the poll reactor, which doesn't throw exceptions but 
appears still not to work properly (the bittorrent tracker doesn't seem 
to be getting events delivered).  I am trying to track down further what 
might be wrong.

Kris