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).

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