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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-05-10 15:54:32 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-05-10 15:54:32 (GMT) |
commit | 1d531997a64db69496beb0f69143800c6b8a98ca (patch) | |
tree | c8a3c4dadbdef1f8fc0c432913618f8c77271b3a /Modules | |
parent | 48a1638d78a9a6edc8637af7aae8ef0558ae29a9 (diff) | |
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Fix the fcntl() docstring so the user is not mis-directed to the FCNTL
module for useful constants.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r-- | Modules/fcntlmodule.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/fcntlmodule.c b/Modules/fcntlmodule.c index f6dd03a..c45dbe90 100644 --- a/Modules/fcntlmodule.c +++ b/Modules/fcntlmodule.c @@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ static char fcntl_doc [] = "fcntl(fd, opt, [arg])\n\ \n\ Perform the requested operation on file descriptor fd. The operation\n\ -is defined by op and is operating system dependent. Typically these\n\ -codes can be retrieved from the library module FCNTL. The argument arg\n\ -is optional, and defaults to 0; it may be an int or a string. If arg is\n\ -given as a string, the return value of fcntl is a string of that length,\n\ -containing the resulting value put in the arg buffer by the operating system.\n\ -The length of the arg string is not allowed to exceed 1024 bytes. If the arg\n\ -given is an integer or if none is specified, the result value is an integer\n\ +is defined by op and is operating system dependent. These constants are\n\ +available from the fcntl module. The argument arg is optional, and\n\ +defaults to 0; it may be an int or a string. If arg is given as a string,\n\ +the return value of fcntl is a string of that length, containing the\n\ +resulting value put in the arg buffer by the operating system.The length\n\ +of the arg string is not allowed to exceed 1024 bytes. If the arg given\n\ +is an integer or if none is specified, the result value is an integer\n\ corresponding to the return value of the fcntl call in the C code."; |