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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-05-22 03:57:17 (GMT)
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-05-22 03:57:17 (GMT)
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Issue 12126: removing incorrect claim about return value of select
merge 3.1 -> 3.2
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@@ -356,8 +356,7 @@ reason to do otherwise.
In return, you will get three lists. They contain the sockets that are actually
readable, writable and in error. Each of these lists is a subset (possibly
-empty) of the corresponding list you passed in. If you put a socket in more
-than one input list, it will only be (at most) in one output list.
+empty) of the corresponding list you passed in.
If a socket is in the output readable list, you can be
as-close-to-certain-as-we-ever-get-in-this-business that a ``recv`` on that