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? j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
