Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> added the comment:

Another subtlety that that code handles, and that the stdlib socket module 
might also want to handle: if the user passes in a custom backlog argument 
that's >65535, then we silently replace it with 66535 before passing it to the 
system. The reason is that many systems will silently truncate this value to 16 
bits, so if a user explicitly passes in 65536, what they get is a backlog of 1, 
which is probably not what they were hoping for.

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