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diff Doc/lib/libsocket.tex @ 31181:e5d97ab710a2 legacy-trunk
After hearing from someone who gave up on timeout sockets due to a
mistake in his code, I'm adding a note explaining that you should call
settimeout() before connect().
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:12:53 +0000 |
| parents | bf038986cb8f |
| children | 8f8bba0a75b4 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex Sat Dec 13 20:32:08 2003 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex Sat Dec 13 22:12:53 2003 +0000 @@ -625,6 +625,10 @@ timeout or non-blocking mode file operations that cannot be completed immediately will fail. +Note that the \method{connect()} operation is subject to the timeout +setting, and in general it is recommended to call +\method{settimeout()} before calling \method{connect()}. + \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{setsockopt}{level, optname, value} Set the value of the given socket option (see the \UNIX{} manual page \manpage{setsockopt}{2}). The needed symbolic constants are defined in