From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:09:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6591: add reference to ioctl in fcntl module for platforms other than Windows.
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#6591: add reference to ioctl in fcntl module for platforms other than Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index b59b60902db6..e50849dd1c54 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -599,6 +599,9 @@ correspond to Unix system calls applicable to sockets.
    The :meth:`ioctl` method is a limited interface to the WSAIoctl system
    interface. Please refer to the MSDN documentation for more information.
 
+   On other platforms, the generic :func:`fcntl.fcntl` and :func:`fcntl.ioctl`
+   functions may be used; they accept a socket object as their first argument.
+
    .. versionadded:: 2.6