From 5b73ca4b3d5d53f949636eb5678ea31569adbdba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:46:35 +0100 Subject: s/SOCKSTREAM/TCP/ --- Doc/howto/sockets.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index f2da397..e2703f5 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ When Sockets Die Probably the worst thing about using blocking sockets is what happens when the other side comes down hard (without doing a ``close``). Your socket is likely to -hang. SOCKSTREAM is a reliable protocol, and it will wait a long, long time +hang. TCP is a reliable protocol, and it will wait a long, long time before giving up on a connection. If you're using threads, the entire thread is essentially dead. There's not much you can do about it. As long as you aren't doing something dumb, like holding a lock while doing a blocking read, the -- cgit v0.12