Bidirectional Networking

[Bryan Olson]

Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote:
> As for the backlog (5), this 
> doesn't mean that you can only have a maximum of 5 established 
> connections.  Each established connection gets a new socket object.  But 
> what I think it means is that during the listen for an incoming 
> connection on the listening socket, if multiple connection attempts are 
> coming in at one time it can keep a backlog of up to 5 of these 
> connection attempts for that individual socket.

Right. An incoming connect adds a connection to the listen queue, and 
the application's accept() call removes one connections from the queue.

The limited backlog is relevant to the OP's suggestion of calling 
SocketServer.handle_request() periodically. The accept() that pulls 
connections off the listen queue is within handle_request(), thus during 
the period between these calls incoming connections will queue up and 
could easily reach the limit.


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--Bryan