Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The notes in the documentation under socket.gettimeout() do go into > more detail than elsewhere. But at least one thing there is at best > misleading: "Sockets are always created in blocking mode" is, as we've > seen, not correct for BSD-ish systems for sockets returned by > accept(). So, at a minimum, this section and the documentation for > socket.accept() should be expanded, along with any other changes.
Well, unless someone explains convincingly how the current behaviour is desireable (rather than misleading and useless), I really think this is a bug that should be fix (then we can also discuss what the fix should exactly be). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7995> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com