#6774: explain shutdown() behavior varying with platform.

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Georg Brandl 2010-07-11 09:23:11 +00:00
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@ -748,7 +748,9 @@ timeout error of its own regardless of any Python socket timeout setting.
Shut down one or both halves of the connection. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RD`,
further receives are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_WR`, further sends
are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RDWR`, further sends and receives are
disallowed.
disallowed. Depending on the platform, shutting down one half of the connection
can also close the opposite half (e.g. on Mac OS X, ``shutdown(SHUT_WR)`` does
not allow further reads on the other end of the connection).
Note that there are no methods :meth:`read` or :meth:`write`; use
:meth:`~socket.recv` and :meth:`~socket.send` without *flags* argument instead.