Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> added the comment: > Furthermore, python's socket documentation makes it clear:
Why does CPython go out of its way to make it impossible to pass 0 to the platform listen() API? The part of the specification you quoted makes it very clear that 0 is a valid value for this argument. And 0 seems to have a very different meaning than 1, but for some reason CPython thinks that 1 is a better thing for 0 to mean. Perhaps there is a real reason someone thought to add this check in sock_listen, but if not, I think it's worth considering removing this check. Unfortunately the commit message for the revision which added this check (r3880) is not informative: sock_listen: ensure backlog argument is at least1 > If you really want to only accept 1 connection (I'm talking of sending back a > SYN-ACK, not an accept() call), you can just close the server socket This makes perfect sense, though, and is good advice in general. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8498> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
