Commit dcfdae7d authored by Georg Brandl's avatar Georg Brandl

Bug #1460564: document that socket.fromfd() duplicates the given

file descriptor.
parent e071b001
......@@ -317,10 +317,11 @@ Availability: \UNIX. \versionadded{2.4}
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{fromfd}{fd, family, type\optional{, proto}}
Build a socket object from an existing file descriptor (an integer as
returned by a file object's \method{fileno()} method). Address family,
socket type and protocol number are as for the \function{socket()} function
above. The file descriptor should refer to a socket, but this is not
Duplicate the file descriptor \var{fd} (an integer as returned by a file
object's \method{fileno()} method) and build a socket object from the
result. Address family, socket type and protocol number are as for the
\function{socket()} function above.
The file descriptor should refer to a socket, but this is not
checked --- subsequent operations on the object may fail if the file
descriptor is invalid. This function is rarely needed, but can be
used to get or set socket options on a socket passed to a program as
......
......@@ -3168,7 +3168,8 @@ socket_fromfd(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
PyDoc_STRVAR(fromfd_doc,
"fromfd(fd, family, type[, proto]) -> socket object\n\
\n\
Create a socket object from the given file descriptor.\n\
Create a socket object from a duplicate of the given\n\
file descriptor.\n\
The remaining arguments are the same as for socket().");
#endif /* NO_DUP */
......@@ -4052,7 +4053,7 @@ init_socket(void)
PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "NETLINK_IP6_FW", NETLINK_IP6_FW);
PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "NETLINK_DNRTMSG", NETLINK_DNRTMSG);
PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "NETLINK_TAPBASE", NETLINK_TAPBASE);
#endif
#endif /* AF_NETLINK */
#ifdef AF_ROUTE
/* Alias to emulate 4.4BSD */
PyModule_AddIntConstant(m, "AF_ROUTE", AF_ROUTE);
......
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