From: Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:20:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: asyncio: Server.close() leaves client sockets open
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.2rc1~231
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4bfb14ac10eef86652142879d02e7601d1cf6490;p=python

asyncio: Server.close() leaves client sockets open
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 993a5dea44..6fe5aa1b20 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -567,8 +567,11 @@ Server
 
    .. method:: close()
 
-      Stop serving: close all sockets and set the :attr:`sockets` attribute to
-      ``None``.
+      Stop serving: close listening sockets and set the :attr:`sockets`
+      attribute to ``None``.
+
+      The sockets that represent existing incoming client connections are
+      leaved open.
 
       The server is closed asynchonously, use the :meth:`wait_closed` coroutine
       to wait until the server is closed.