From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 04:15:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: note that the error code for socket.gaierror will be one of the EAI_*
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note that the error code for socket.gaierror will be one of the EAI_*
constants
(closes SF bug #837929)
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index b9ba39bae1f4..23c3d7bdace3 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ The accompanying value is a pair \code{(\var{error}, \var{string})}
 representing an error returned by a library call.
 \var{string} represents the description of \var{error}, as returned
 by the \cfunction{gai_strerror()} C function.
+The \var{error} value will match one of the \constant{EAI_*} constants
+defined in this module.
 \end{excdesc}
 
 \begin{excdesc}{timeout}