OOPS! Was writing one byte at a time to the server.

_raw_write() expects a list, not a string, so it was iterating over it
character by character.  Magically it worked anyway.  Which is sort of cool,
and yet not.

diff --git a/cmd-server.py b/cmd-server.py
index 2ad240a55825d2619094f5be5e580d42c1ea5c4c..e29b20189bf9ef0919eb29bb2372398f4a3a5756 100755 (executable)
--- a/cmd-server.py
+++ b/cmd-server.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def receive_objects(conn, junk):
             w.abort()
             raise Exception('object read: expected %d bytes, got %d\n'
                             % (n, len(buf)))
-        w._raw_write(buf)
+        w._raw_write([buf])
     w.close()
     conn.ok()