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| author | Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> | 2009-04-01 16:42:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jesse Noller <jnoller@gmail.com> | 2009-04-01 16:42:19 (GMT) |
| commit | b12e79da1b970ba151687524355fa8f5ffe925b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 6caa49c59e5f3171fb7e1044dff018974d35f314 | |
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Issue 3270: document Listener address restrictions on windows
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst index 02f6ac1..5ff94ea 100644 --- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst @@ -1705,6 +1705,12 @@ authentication* using the :mod:`hmac` module. *address* is the address to be used by the bound socket or named pipe of the listener object. + .. note:: + + If an address of '0.0.0.0' is used, the address will not be a connectable + end point on Windows. If you require a connectable end-point, + you should use '127.0.0.1'. + *family* is the type of socket (or named pipe) to use. This can be one of the strings ``'AF_INET'`` (for a TCP socket), ``'AF_UNIX'`` (for a Unix domain socket) or ``'AF_PIPE'`` (for a Windows named pipe). Of these only |