I am TENTATIVELY checking in Martin von Loewis's patch for the SSL problem reported by Neil Schemenauer on python-dev on 4/12/01, wth subject "Problem with SSL and socketmodule on Debian Potato?". It's tentative because Moshe objected, but Martin rebutted, and Moshe seems unavailable for comments. (Note that with OpenSSL 0.9.6a, I get a lot of compilation warnings for socketmodule.c -- I'm assuming I can safely ignore these until 2.1 is released.)

/* Subroutine to get the last modification time of a file */

/* (A separate file because this may be OS dependent) */

#include "Python.h"
#include "config.h"

time_t
PyOS_GetLastModificationTime(char *path, FILE *fp)
{
	struct stat st;
	if (fstat(fileno(fp), &st) != 0)
		return -1;
	else
		return st.st_mtime;
}