From: Jesse Noller Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:44:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 70960 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v2.6.2c1~46 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e7a65f5650e5162851a6e9b05121bd49f8f07e2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Merged revisions 70960 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r70960 | jesse.noller | 2009-04-01 11:42:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Apr 2009) | 1 line Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 51c36d4749a5..df2cd8f1c727 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1697,6 +1697,12 @@ authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module. *address* is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object. + .. note:: + + If an address of '0.0.0.0' is used, the address will not be a connectable + end point on Windows. If you require a connectable end-point, + you should use '127.0.0.1'. + *family* is the type of socket (or named pipe) to use. This can be one of the strings ``'AF_INET'`` (for a TCP socket), ``'AF_UNIX'`` (for a Unix domain socket) or ``'AF_PIPE'`` (for a Windows named pipe). Of these only