[Tutor] Socket not connecting

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Thu Oct 20 02:06:58 CEST 2011


On 19/10/11 23:57, Christopher King wrote:
>     (I might try increasing the listen value to say 3 or 5 but it
>     shouldn't really be necessary)
>
> What exactly is the listen value (by the way, I'm jake's friend he was
> talking about.)

It's essentially the number of messages in the queue. If
you only use 1 and some spurious rubbish arrives then you
won't get any of the real data...

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