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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-05 00:46:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2011-12-05 00:46:35 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index f2da397..e2703f5 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ When Sockets Die Probably the worst thing about using blocking sockets is what happens when the other side comes down hard (without doing a ``close``). Your socket is likely to -hang. SOCKSTREAM is a reliable protocol, and it will wait a long, long time +hang. TCP is a reliable protocol, and it will wait a long, long time before giving up on a connection. If you're using threads, the entire thread is essentially dead. There's not much you can do about it. As long as you aren't doing something dumb, like holding a lock while doing a blocking read, the |