From 3ff9e558901b49551e27ee48a1fb39b65037e889 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Facundo Batista Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:41:24 +0000 Subject: Minor clarification, saying that blocking means no timeout (from bug #882297) --- Doc/lib/libsocket.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex index e9c853a..e0ce0a5 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ are described in \ref{bltin-file-objects}, ``File Objects.'') The file object references a \cfunction{dup()}ped version of the socket file descriptor, so the file object and socket object may be closed or garbage-collected independently. -The socket must be in blocking mode. +The socket must be in blocking mode (it can not have a timeout). \index{I/O control!buffering}The optional \var{mode} and \var{bufsize} arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in \function{file()} function; see ``Built-in Functions'' -- cgit v0.12