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diff Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @ 1682:2bcddc905da0 legacy-trunk
clarify the meaning of address for those methods that or return addresses
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Thu, 23 Jun 1994 12:13:52 +0000 |
| parents | dddcba2038bc |
| children | 0b645726957e |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex Thu Jun 23 12:06:02 1994 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex Thu Jun 23 12:13:52 1994 +0000 @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{bind}{address} -Bind the socket to an address. The socket must not already be bound. +Bind the socket to \var{address}. The socket must not already be bound. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{close}{} @@ -125,7 +126,8 @@ \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{connect}{address} -Connect to a remote socket. +Connect to a remote socket at \var{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{fileno}{} @@ -136,11 +138,15 @@ \begin{funcdesc}{getpeername}{} Return the remote address to which the socket is connected. This is useful to find out the port number of a remote IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockname}{} Return the socket's own address. This is useful to find out the port number of an IP socket, for instance. +(The format of the address returned depends on the address family -- +see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{getsockopt}{level\, optname\, buflen} @@ -182,6 +188,7 @@ \code{(\var{string}, \var{address})} where \var{string} is a string representing the data received and \var{address} is the address of the socket sending the data. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{send}{string} @@ -193,6 +200,7 @@ Send data to the socket. The socket should not be connected to a remote socket, since the destination socket is specified by \code{address}. +(The format of \var{address} depends on the address family -- see above.) \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{setsockopt}{level\, optname\, value}
