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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1994-06-23 12:13:52 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1994-06-23 12:13:52 (GMT) |
| commit | a84ec5196566646667947841413713ec031d7387 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d1e8307dd5a2c7ce91ddbe2bce933e9e5af64ce /Doc | |
| parent | 560131328c9ddfa25555048b1bf4d760c02e1dd7 (diff) | |
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clarify the meaning of address for those methods that or return addresses
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libsocket.tex | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/libsocket.tex | 12 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index 375d38e..8599451 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ to the socket on the other end of the connection. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{bind}{address} -Bind the socket to an address. The socket must not already be bound. +Bind the socket to \var{address}. The socket must not already be bound. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{close}{} @@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ Sockets are automatically closed when they are garbage-collected. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{connect}{address} -Connect to a remote socket. +Connect to a remote socket at \var{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{fileno}{} @@ -136,11 +138,15 @@ with \code{select}. \begin{funcdesc}{getpeername}{} Return the remote address to which the socket is connected. This is useful to find out the port number of a remote IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockname}{} Return the socket's own address. This is useful to find out the port number of an IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockopt}{level\, optname\, buflen} @@ -182,6 +188,7 @@ Receive data from the socket. The return value is a pair \code{(\var{string}, \var{address})} where \var{string} is a string representing the data received and \var{address} is the address of the socket sending the data. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{send}{string} @@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ socket. Send data to the socket. The socket should not be connected to a remote socket, since the destination socket is specified by \code{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{setsockopt}{level\, optname\, value} diff --git a/Doc/libsocket.tex b/Doc/libsocket.tex index 375d38e..8599451 100644 --- a/Doc/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/libsocket.tex @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ to the socket on the other end of the connection. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{bind}{address} -Bind the socket to an address. The socket must not already be bound. +Bind the socket to \var{address}. The socket must not already be bound. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{close}{} @@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ Sockets are automatically closed when they are garbage-collected. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{connect}{address} -Connect to a remote socket. +Connect to a remote socket at \var{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{fileno}{} @@ -136,11 +138,15 @@ with \code{select}. \begin{funcdesc}{getpeername}{} Return the remote address to which the socket is connected. This is useful to find out the port number of a remote IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockname}{} Return the socket's own address. This is useful to find out the port number of an IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockopt}{level\, optname\, buflen} @@ -182,6 +188,7 @@ Receive data from the socket. The return value is a pair \code{(\var{string}, \var{address})} where \var{string} is a string representing the data received and \var{address} is the address of the socket sending the data. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{send}{string} @@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ socket. Send data to the socket. The socket should not be connected to a remote socket, since the destination socket is specified by \code{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{setsockopt}{level\, optname\, value} |