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author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200 |
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committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-05-10 19:16:03 +0200 |
commit | 32bb603da8b576d1fdfdd3ccebe91cf7dc5d3963 (patch) | |
tree | ff31c0392f0259e5e6b793d30992aa0eef232b3d /Modules/socketmodule.c | |
parent | e1a2bb917ddf2d0d9a89417d204cfbc2f95e603d (diff) | |
download | cpython-32bb603da8b576d1fdfdd3ccebe91cf7dc5d3963.tar.gz |
Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules/socketmodule.c')
-rw-r--r-- | Modules/socketmodule.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c index 96b83b1150..76d860cac5 100644 --- a/Modules/socketmodule.c +++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c @@ -2244,8 +2244,10 @@ sock_listen(PySocketSockObject *s, PyObject *arg) if (backlog == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) return NULL; Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS - if (backlog < 1) - backlog = 1; + /* To avoid problems on systems that don't allow a negative backlog + * (which doesn't make sense anyway) we force a minimum value of 0. */ + if (backlog < 0) + backlog = 0; res = listen(s->sock_fd, backlog); Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS if (res < 0) @@ -2258,8 +2260,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(listen_doc, "listen(backlog)\n\ \n\ Enable a server to accept connections. The backlog argument must be at\n\ -least 1; it specifies the number of unaccepted connection that the system\n\ -will allow before refusing new connections."); +least 0 (if it is lower, it is set to 0); it specifies the number of\n\ +unaccepted connections that the system will allow before refusing new\n\ +connections."); #ifndef NO_DUP |