From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 03:51:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add note about fileno not being usable as a normal file descriptor in Windows.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1802
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b278ac4e46043809447116c19262efd33d7f742f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add note about fileno not being usable as a normal file descriptor in Windows.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
index 199b97f314d0..de2f51d89160 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libsocket.tex
@@ -480,6 +480,10 @@ This was never intentional and is no longer be available in Python
 \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{fileno}{}
 Return the socket's file descriptor (a small integer).  This is useful
 with \function{select.select()}.
+
+Under Windows the small integer returned by this method cannot be used where
+a file descriptor can be used (such as \function{os.fdopen()}).  \UNIX{} does
+not have this limitation.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}[socket]{getpeername}{}