From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 14:53:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add class variable allow_reuse_address in TCPServer -- if nonzero, the
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1798
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e3c7a5fbf5b737666a3e1f58f0677ec93e4de032;p=python

Add class variable allow_reuse_address in TCPServer -- if nonzero, the
server_bind() method calls setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, 1).
---

diff --git a/Lib/SocketServer.py b/Lib/SocketServer.py
index 2c7335698b..5562fb0ef4 100644
--- a/Lib/SocketServer.py
+++ b/Lib/SocketServer.py
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ class TCPServer:
     - address_family
     - socket_type
     - request_queue_size (only for stream sockets)
+    - reuse_address
 
     Instance variables:
 
@@ -156,6 +157,8 @@ class TCPServer:
 
     request_queue_size = 5
 
+    allow_reuse_address = 0
+
     def __init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass):
         """Constructor.  May be extended, do not override."""
         self.server_address = server_address
@@ -171,6 +174,8 @@ class TCPServer:
         May be overridden.
 
         """
+        if self.allow_reuse_address:
+            self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
         self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
 
     def server_activate(self):