Issue #15179: Closed socket on connection failure. Thanks to Kazutaka Morita for...

diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 22f8c3446cfaa63854d4d82337e4ac747cf7d190..d4df5c6d61d5930367d6ecf06ae89dd0b24395f5 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -761,7 +761,11 @@ class SysLogHandler(logging.Handler):
         except socket.error:
             self.socket.close()
             self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-            self.socket.connect(address)
+            try:
+                self.socket.connect(address)
+            except socket.error:
+                self.socket.close()
+                raise
 
     def encodePriority(self, facility, priority):
         """