Newbie question: how to keep a socket listening?

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Fri Jun 24 14:26:51 EDT 2005


On 2005-06-24, ncf <nothingcanfulfill at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think your problem /may/ be in the following line of code:
> sa.listen(1)
>
> I believe what's happening is that the listen() creates a decremental
> counter of the number of connections to accept. Once it decrements to
> 0, it won't accept any more connections. (I'm not at all sure, but that
> sounds like what it's doing.)

The "1" tells the stack how many pending connections are allowed.

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