From c48f86384d5a792f3bdcda761cd525cb55717a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ferrieux@users.sourceforge.net" <ferrieux>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:34:59 +0000
Subject: [Bug 3472316] Document the destructive semantics of [fconfigure
 -error] on sockets.

---
 doc/socket.n | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/socket.n b/doc/socket.n
index bd307b7..c020839 100644
--- a/doc/socket.n
+++ b/doc/socket.n
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ 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.
+
+Note that the error status is reset by the read operation; this mimics
+the underlying getsockopt(SO_ERROR) call.
 .TP
 \fB\-sockname\fR
 This option returns a list of three elements, the address, the host name
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