Bugs item #1460564, was opened at 2006-03-29 11:41
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Michael Smith (mlrsmith)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Misleading documentation for socket.fromfd()
Initial Comment:
The socket.fromfd() method does not correctly document
what it does, in a way that is likely to cause users to
leak file descriptors.
Proposed fix:
--- Modules/socketmodule.c 2005-09-14
20:15:03.000000000 +0200
+++
/home/msmith/src/Python-2.4.2/Modules/socketmodule.c
2006-03-29 11:28:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -3077,7 +3077,8 @@
PyDoc_STRVAR(fromfd_doc,
"fromfd(fd, family, type[, proto]) -> socket object\n\
\n\
-Create a socket object from the given file descriptor.\n\
+Duplicate the given file descriptor, and create a
socket\n\
+object from the duplicate.\r\
The remaining arguments are the same as for socket().");
#endif /* NO_DUP */
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