From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 1994 10:52:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: adapt to min value of 1 for listen() backlog argument
X-Git-Tag: v1.0.2~49
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5da5755c4a7321e99c00912b8527568f05df19d6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

adapt to min value of 1 for listen() backlog argument
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index dfd08c7283dd..375d38ed4beb 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ encoded as strings).
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{listen}{backlog}
 Listen for connections made to the socket.
-The argument (in the range 0-5) specifies the maximum number of
-queued connections.
+The argument specifies the maximum number of queued connections and
+should be at least 1; the maximum value is system-dependent.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{makefile}{mode}
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ HOST = ''                 # Symbolic name meaning the local host
 PORT = 50007              # Arbitrary non-privileged server
 s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
 s.bind(HOST, PORT)
-s.listen(0)
+s.listen(1)
 conn, addr = s.accept()
 print 'Connected by', addr
 while 1:
diff --git a/Doc/libsocket.tex b/Doc/libsocket.tex
index dfd08c7283dd..375d38ed4beb 100644
--- a/Doc/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/libsocket.tex
@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ encoded as strings).
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{listen}{backlog}
 Listen for connections made to the socket.
-The argument (in the range 0-5) specifies the maximum number of
-queued connections.
+The argument specifies the maximum number of queued connections and
+should be at least 1; the maximum value is system-dependent.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{makefile}{mode}
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ HOST = ''                 # Symbolic name meaning the local host
 PORT = 50007              # Arbitrary non-privileged server
 s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
 s.bind(HOST, PORT)
-s.listen(0)
+s.listen(1)
 conn, addr = s.accept()
 print 'Connected by', addr
 while 1: