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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-12-13 22:12:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 2003-12-13 22:12:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 5a92175fbce5b2244e6873457bec48d359ffadbc (patch) | |
| tree | 6e4babf6eeea74d6f41f579f2c8e267ef64ef58b | |
| parent | 2cbdc2a461eb2bb5e2437f4e04952cde1155204a (diff) | |
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After hearing from someone who gave up on timeout sockets due to a
mistake in his code, I'm adding a note explaining that you should call
settimeout() before connect().
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index 09c4c8d..1c48108 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -625,6 +625,10 @@ method should only be used when the socket is in blocking mode; in timeout or non-blocking mode file operations that cannot be completed immediately will fail. +Note that the \method{connect()} operation is subject to the timeout +setting, and in general it is recommended to call +\method{settimeout()} before calling \method{connect()}. + \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{setsockopt}{level, optname, value} Set the value of the given socket option (see the \UNIX{} manual page \manpage{setsockopt}{2}). The needed symbolic constants are defined in |