I'd have to guess that Guido put that in when I pointed out that ftplib.py
did not work on Solaris 2.3.
The reason was makeport in ftplib has a listen(0) which really
should have been a listen(1) since numbers less than 1 don't work at all
on Solaris, even though it did on 4.1.x.
By a strict interpretation of the wording of the man page on listen,
since the listen is done well before there is traffic available,
*theoretically* listen(0) should have worked, but it didn't.
So putting the check in makes the code more robust.
But then again, I don't know why anyone would want to set a queue size less
than 1. Do you? I'm not sure there are any cases on Solaris, for example, where
that would even work at all.
-steve
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> In Modules/socketmodule.c in the sock_listen function, I found:
> if (backlog < 1)
> backlog == 1;
> Is that a bug?
>
> And also by compiling the Modules directory with the -Wall option of
> EMX/GCC under OS/2 I get a bunch of warnings, mostly harmless, but some say
> something like "function returns void in a non-void-return-type function",
> are these warning a problem?
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