Only write one byte at a time and try to write many more bytes overall.
Hopefully this addresses FreeBSD and Gentoo issues with this test.
diff --git a/OpenSSL/test/test_ssl.py b/OpenSSL/test/test_ssl.py
index a6f0127..1f62e49 100644
--- a/OpenSSL/test/test_ssl.py
+++ b/OpenSSL/test/test_ssl.py
@@ -1911,9 +1911,13 @@
"""
client_socket, server_socket = socket_pair()
# Fill up the client's send buffer so Connection won't be able to write
- # anything.
- msg = b"x" * 512
- for i in range(2048):
+ # anything. Only write a single byte at a time so we can be sure we
+ # completely fill the buffer. Even though the socket API is allowed to
+ # signal a short write via its return value it seems this doesn't
+ # always happen on all platforms (FreeBSD and OS X particular) for the
+ # very last bit of available buffer space.
+ msg = b"x"
+ for i in range(1024 * 1024 * 4):
try:
client_socket.send(msg)
except error as e: