[Python-Dev] RFC: Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jun 8 07:54:14 EDT 2017

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 09:30:37 +0100 Cory Benfield <cory at lukasa.co.uk> wrote:

Ah, yes, we do. In our defense, this is the semantic of the listen syscall,[...]

According to POSIX, the backlog is only a hint, i.e. Jython is probably ok in not observing its value:

"""The backlog argument provides a hint to the implementation which the implementation shall use to limit the number of outstanding connections in the socket's listen queue."""

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/listen.html

Regards

Antoine.

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