Issue #26536: socket.ioctl now supports SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH. Patch by Daniel Stokes.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index 84286c9..c63c73a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -329,12 +329,17 @@ Constants
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
 
-.. data:: SIO_*
+.. data:: SIO_RCVALL
+          SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS
+          SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH
           RCVALL_*
 
    Constants for Windows' WSAIoctl(). The constants are used as arguments to the
    :meth:`~socket.socket.ioctl` method of socket objects.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      ``SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH`` was added.
+
 
 .. data:: TIPC_*
 
@@ -996,6 +1001,12 @@ to sockets.
    On other platforms, the generic :func:`fcntl.fcntl` and :func:`fcntl.ioctl`
    functions may be used; they accept a socket object as their first argument.
 
+   Currently only the following control codes are supported:
+   ``SIO_RCVALL``, ``SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS``, and ``SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH``.
+
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.6
+      ``SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH`` was added.
+
 .. method:: socket.listen([backlog])
 
    Enable a server to accept connections.  If *backlog* is specified, it must
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 8e166f0..e7e01a6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -346,6 +346,14 @@ sqlite3
   (Contributed by Alex LordThorsen in :issue:`16864`.)
 
 
+socket
+------
+
+The :func:`~socket.socket.ioctl` function now supports the :data:`~socket.SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH`
+control code.
+(Contributed by Daniel Stokes in :issue:`26536`.)
+
+
 socketserver
 ------------