summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
commit38e5d27caee56b6958e0034e342abb48e6100390 (patch)
tree6a0c853da853123dd2e628e8ec187517250c2530 /Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
parent659ebfa79e891fc5e2480cd66c157970df57c451 (diff)
downloadcpython-38e5d27caee56b6958e0034e342abb48e6100390.zip
cpython-38e5d27caee56b6958e0034e342abb48e6100390.tar.gz
cpython-38e5d27caee56b6958e0034e342abb48e6100390.tar.bz2
Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
(Very rough.)
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib/libsocket.tex')
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libsocket.tex11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index 4abe805..bcbb76f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -6,16 +6,19 @@
This module provides access to the BSD \emph{socket} interface.
-It is available on \UNIX{} systems that support this interface.
+It is available on all modern \UNIX{} systems, Windows, MacOS, BeOS,
+OS/2, and probably additional platforms.
For an introduction to socket programming (in C), see the following
papers: \citetitle{An Introductory 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication
Tutorial}, by Stuart Sechrest and \citetitle{An Advanced 4.3BSD
Interprocess Communication Tutorial}, by Samuel J. Leffler et al,
both in the \citetitle{\UNIX{} Programmer's Manual, Supplementary Documents 1}
-(sections PS1:7 and PS1:8). The \UNIX{} manual pages for the various
-socket-related system calls are also a valuable source of information
-on the details of socket semantics.
+(sections PS1:7 and PS1:8). The platform-specific reference material
+for the various socket-related system calls are also a valuable source
+of information on the details of socket semantics. For \UNIX, refer
+to the manual pages; for Windows, see the WinSock (or Winsock 2)
+specification.
The Python interface is a straightforward transliteration of the
\UNIX{} system call and library interface for sockets to Python's