> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 06:32:22PM +0100, Michael Roberts wrote:
>> Hi, i think there is something wrong with listenOn:. I am not sure
>> what exactly.  the variation below seems to work in Pharo 1.0 on OS X.
>>
>> | server client |
>> server := Socket new.
>> server listenOn: 12345 backlogSize: 4.
>> server waitForConnectionFor: 600.
>> client := server accept.
>> client receiveData
>>    --> 'hello '
>>
>>
>> and from a shell
>> echo hello | nc localhost 12345
>
> Confirmed, that works for me. I infer from this that it is illegal to
> call accept with a backlogSize of 0. Perhaps this should be checked for
> at a higher level so that a meaningful error can be returned?
>
> I was surprised to note that accept returns immediately even if there is
> no client connected. Try removing the line "server waitForConnectionFor:
> 600." in your example. The code still runs but the socket it returns is
> in the connected state even though it can't possibly be connected to
> anything. Is this behaviour correct? I thought accept was a blocking
> call.
>
> I'll look into ConnectionQueue, thanks for the help.
>
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