Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > Considering that UNIX Network Programming, Vol 1 (by W. Richard Stevens) > recommends "_All_ TCP servers should specify [SO_REUSEADDR] to allow the > server to be restarted [if there are clients connected]," and that > self.allow_reuse_address = False makes restarting a server a pain if there > were connected clients, why does SocketServer default allow_reuse_address > to False? It's kind of bemusing to subclass ThreadingTCPServer just to > change one variable that arguably should have been True in the first place. > > Is there some history to this of which I'm not aware? Is there a good > reason for it to default to false?
If any, don't know. Searched in already reported bugs to check if somebody already noticed. If not, please consider to open a bug. Regards, -- . Facundo . Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
