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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2009-07-03 20:48:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2009-07-03 20:48:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 9d36fd2acbe618796ecfcb1dd6cb04e9d0f44c8f (patch) | |
| tree | 0cde3464e418323eae7aa540fa7e7b049c8bed5e /Doc | |
| parent | 9ad7bbc6370e370b3da7c60cc1ca74774d11957c (diff) | |
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Adds the select.PIPE_BUF attribute to expose the system constant.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst index 351ecfa..469fbac 100644 --- a/Doc/library/select.rst +++ b/Doc/library/select.rst @@ -100,6 +100,15 @@ The module defines the following: library, and does not handle file descriptors that don't originate from WinSock. +.. attribute:: select.PIPE_BUF + + Files reported as ready for writing by :func:`select`, :func:`poll` or + similar interfaces in this module are guaranteed to not block on a write + of up to :const:`PIPE_BUF` bytes. + This value is guaranteed by POSIX to be at least 512. + + .. versionadded:: 2.7 + .. _epoll-objects: |