From de9c6ff8ee6a469613d7f6b5d8f42d1d2a7c8c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Trott Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 10:54:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve server.listen() documentation prose PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/7000 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig Reviewed-By: Yuval Brik Reviewed-By: James M Snell Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno --- doc/api/net.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/api/net.md b/doc/api/net.md index d1cc825fbc17d9..505337871a8904 100644 --- a/doc/api/net.md +++ b/doc/api/net.md @@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ Begin accepting connections on the specified `port` and `hostname`. If the port value of zero will assign a random port. Backlog is the maximum length of the queue of pending connections. -The actual length will be determined by your OS through sysctl settings such as -`tcp_max_syn_backlog` and `somaxconn` on linux. The default value of this +The actual length will be determined by the OS through sysctl settings such as +`tcp_max_syn_backlog` and `somaxconn` on Linux. The default value of this parameter is 511 (not 512). This function is asynchronous. When the server has been bound, @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ will be added as a listener for the [`'listening'`][] event. One issue some users run into is getting `EADDRINUSE` errors. This means that another server is already running on the requested port. One way of handling this -would be to wait a second and then try again. This can be done with +would be to wait a second and then try again: ```js server.on('error', (e) => { @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ server.on('error', (e) => { }); ``` -(Note: All sockets in Node.js set `SO_REUSEADDR` already) +(Note: All sockets in Node.js are set `SO_REUSEADDR`.) ### server.listening