From 3805fe7768b84ba829ca0f38d4237b164127bc9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:57:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention getservbyport(). There's no patch number in the CVS log, so I assume Barry wrote the code. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex index 5ed43293be..478f5b8b43 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew24.tex @@ -1422,9 +1422,10 @@ sidestep the checking and if you were unlucky Python could segfault. Python 2.4's regular expression engine can match this pattern without problems. -\item A new \function{socketpair()} function, returning a pair of -connected sockets, was added to the \module{socket} module. -(Contributed by Dave Cole.) +\item Two new functions were added to the \module{socket} module. +\function{socketpair()} returns a pair of connected sockets and +\function{getservbyport(\var{port})} looks up the service name for a +given port number. (Contributed by Dave Cole and Barry Warsaw.) \item The \function{sys.exitfunc()} function has been deprecated. Code should be using the existing \module{atexit} module, which correctly -- 2.50.0