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QUERY · ISSUE

esp8266: socket blocking settings are inherited by accept() when they probably shouldn't be

openby dpgeorgeopened 2017-03-10updated 2024-08-28
port-esp8266

Test code:

import time, socket
s = socket.socket()
s.bind(socket.getaddrinfo("0.0.0.0", 8000)[0][-1])
s.setblocking(False)
s.listen(1)
while True:
    try:
        s2, _ = s.accept()
        break
    except OSError as er: 
        print(repr(er))
    time.sleep(1)
print('connection')
s2.recv(10)

On CPy and uPy unix, running the above code and connecting to the socket will block indefinitely at the last line, because the accepted socket s2 defaults to blocking mode.

On esp8266 the accepted socket s2 inherits the non-blocking behaviour from s.

CANDIDATE · ISSUE

esp8266: listen()/accept() broken?

closedby roger-opened 2015-05-07updated 2015-07-03
ports

I'm testing the following server script:

import esp

esp.connect('xxx', 'xxx')  

s = esp.socket()

def on_connect(sock):
    print(s.accept()) 

s.bind(('', 80))
s.onconnect(on_connect)
s.listen(5)

But get a OSError: not listening everytime I connect. Seems like something is broken?

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