From: Charles-Francois Natali <cf.natali@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 13:12:20 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Issue #17529: Fix os.sendfile() documentation regarding the type of file
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.2~41
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a771a1b48e7fcf73b13e905f87f319fcd4cb25b2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #17529: Fix os.sendfile() documentation regarding the type of file
descriptor supported.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index e70c8869cef8..6d4fb0410835 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -999,9 +999,8 @@ as internal buffering of data.
    On Mac OS X and FreeBSD, a value of 0 for *nbytes* specifies to send until
    the end of *in* is reached.
 
-   On Solaris, *out* may be the file descriptor of a regular file or the file
-   descriptor of a socket. On all other platforms, *out* must be the file
-   descriptor of an open socket.
+   All platforms support sockets as *out* file descriptor, and some platforms
+   allow other types (e.g. regular file, pipe) as well.
 
    Availability: Unix.