From 71ede5047de4d745c02175b94da03adcc8c00593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:36:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Closes #14303: socket.makefile() does not call dup() anymore on the socket fd. --- Doc/library/socket.rst | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst index f6c711e07c..ce08a448ab 100644 --- a/Doc/library/socket.rst +++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst @@ -661,9 +661,11 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets. .. index:: single: I/O control; buffering Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. (File objects are - described in :ref:`bltin-file-objects`.) The file object - references a :c:func:`dup`\ ped version of the socket file descriptor, so the - file object and socket object may be closed or garbage-collected independently. + described in :ref:`bltin-file-objects`.) The file object does not close the + socket explicitly when its :meth:`close` method is called, but only removes + its reference to the socket object, so that the socket will be closed if it + is not referenced from anywhere else. + The socket must be in blocking mode (it can not have a timeout). The optional *mode* and *bufsize* arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in :func:`file` function. -- 2.50.1