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Created December 5, 2012 01:22
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Factoring out the listen(2) half of djb's tcpserver.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import os
import socket
port = sys.argv.pop(0)
host = sys.argv.pop(0)
port = int(sys.argv.pop(0))
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((host, port))
s.listen(32)
os.dup2(s.fileno(),0)
os.close(s.fileno())
os.execvp(sys.argv[0],sys.argv)
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