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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 12:45:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 12:45:32 (GMT) |
| commit | 1c697a56ba208665ed3db5c6bae48774cc7f552d (patch) | |
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Issue #20100: Clarify that passing flags to epoll() has no effect
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diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst index 6cec9f7..a465d25 100644 --- a/Doc/library/select.rst +++ b/Doc/library/select.rst @@ -57,9 +57,7 @@ The module defines the following: (Only supported on Linux 2.5.44 and newer.) Return an edge polling object, which can be used as Edge or Level Triggered interface for I/O - events. *sizehint* is deprecated and completely ignored. *flags* can be set - to :const:`EPOLL_CLOEXEC`, which causes the epoll descriptor to be closed - automatically when :func:`os.execve` is called. + events. *sizehint* and *flags* are deprecated and completely ignored. See the :ref:`epoll-objects` section below for the methods supported by epolling objects. @@ -77,6 +75,10 @@ The module defines the following: Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added. The new file descriptor is now non-inheritable. + .. deprecated:: 3.4 + The *flags* parameter. ``select.EPOLL_CLOEXEC`` is used by default now. + Use :func:`os.set_inheritable` to make the file descriptor inheritable. + .. function:: poll() |