diff --git a/ci/travis/build-manylinux.sh b/ci/travis/build-manylinux.sh
index 3b1e52de..61caacf3 100755
--- a/ci/travis/build-manylinux.sh
+++ b/ci/travis/build-manylinux.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ rm -rf build dist
 
 docker pull $docker_tag || echo
 docker build --cache-from $docker_tag ci/docker/manylinux -t $docker_tag
-docker push $docker_tag
+# docker push $docker_tag
 docker run --rm -v `pwd`:/io $docker_tag /io/ci/travis/build-wheels.sh
 ls wheelhouse/
diff --git a/ssh2/sftp.pyx b/ssh2/sftp.pyx
index 6c488ee3..fc8102cc 100644
--- a/ssh2/sftp.pyx
+++ b/ssh2/sftp.pyx
@@ -232,12 +232,18 @@ cdef class SFTP:
         :raises: :py:class:`ssh2.exceptions.SFTPHandleError` on errors opening
           file.
         """
-        cdef c_sftp.LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *_handle
+        cdef c_sftp.LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *_handle = NULL
         cdef bytes b_filename = to_bytes(filename)
         cdef char *_filename = b_filename
+        cdef int rc = c_ssh2.LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN
+
         with nogil:
-            _handle = c_sftp.libssh2_sftp_open(
-                self._sftp, _filename, flags, mode)
+            while _handle == NULL and rc == c_ssh2.LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN:
+                _handle = c_sftp.libssh2_sftp_open(
+                    self._sftp, _filename, flags, mode)
+
+                rc = c_ssh2.libssh2_session_last_errno(self._session._session)
+
         if _handle is NULL:
             return self._handle_error(c_ssh2.libssh2_session_last_errno(
                 self._session._session), filename)