[Python-Dev] 2.4 asyncore headache

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 22:25:07 CEST 2004


[Tim]
>> Now somebody, for some reason, added this to 2.4's asyncore.py:
>>             if sys.platform == 'win32':
>>                 reuse_constant = socket.SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE

[Andrew]
> I'll back out this change.

But only if that's the right thing to do <0.9 wink>.  I gave up
reading the Windows SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE docs after it got to the "This
situation can be quite complicated; even though the socket has been
closed, the underlying transport may not terminate its connection ..."
part.  But by that point, it sure didn't seem like SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE
was a plausible Windowsy way to spell the Unixy SO_REUSEADDR ...


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