bpo-42237: Fix os.sendfile() on illumos (GH-23154)

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 70b47c475f..6b51d8a848 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -9873,11 +9873,26 @@ done:
     if (offset >= st.st_size) {
         return Py_BuildValue("i", 0);
     }
+
+    // On illumos specifically sendfile() may perform a partial write but
+    // return -1/an error (in one confirmed case the destination socket
+    // had a 5 second timeout set and errno was EAGAIN) and it's on the client
+    // code to check if the offset parameter was modified by sendfile().
+    //
+    // We need this variable to track said change.
+    off_t original_offset = offset;
 #endif
 
     do {
         Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
         ret = sendfile(out_fd, in_fd, &offset, count);
+#if defined(__sun) && defined(__SVR4)
+        // This handles illumos-specific sendfile() partial write behavior,
+        // see a comment above for more details.
+        if (ret < 0 && offset != original_offset) {
+            ret = offset - original_offset;
+        }
+#endif
         Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
     } while (ret < 0 && errno == EINTR && !(async_err = PyErr_CheckSignals()));
     if (ret < 0)