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Netty Source: Detecting New Connections

How readiness on a listening channel leads the event loop to accept new sockets.

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This is a historical learning note and may contain outdated or incomplete understanding.

The listening channel is registered for the transport’s accept/readiness signal. When the event loop processes that readiness, the server channel’s read/accept path drains available accepted connections according to its read policy.

Readiness is a signal that progress may be possible, not an application connection object by itself; transport accept calls still determine what was actually accepted.

Selector event constants and internal dispatch methods vary by version.

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