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authorstanton <stanton>1999-02-03 00:51:19 (GMT)
committerstanton <stanton>1999-02-03 00:51:19 (GMT)
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* unix/tclUnixChan.c:
* win/tclWinSock.c: * doc/socket.n: Applied Gordon Chaffee's patch to handle failures during asynchronous socket connection operations. This adds a new "-error" fconfgure option to socket channels. [Bug: 893]
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diff --git a/doc/socket.n b/doc/socket.n
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@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
'\"
'\" Copyright (c) 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+'\" Copyright (c) 1998-1999 by Scriptics Corporation.
'\"
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: socket.n,v 1.2 1998/09/14 18:39:55 stanton Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: socket.n,v 1.3 1999/02/03 00:51:19 stanton Exp $
.so man.macros
-.TH socket n 7.5 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
+.TH socket n 8.0 Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
@@ -103,6 +104,14 @@ will be accepted.
.SH CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
The \fBfconfigure\fR command can be used to query several readonly
configuration options for socket channels:
+.VS
+.TP
+\fB\-error\fR
+This option gets the current error status of the given socket. This
+is useful when you need to determine if an asynchronous connect
+operation succeeded. If there was an error, the error message is
+returned. If there was no error, an empty string is returned.
+.VE
.TP
\fB\-sockname\fR
This option returns a list of three elements, the address, the host name