[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Charles-François Natali added the comment: I've reverted the commit. -- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 9be82f458b79 by Charles-François Natali in branch 'default': Issue #6774: Back out c8b77efe8b56, which only brings confusion. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9be82f458b79 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > This is questionable, unexpected, and should be documented. There's already this note at the top of the socket module documentation: """ Note Some behavior may be platform dependent, since calls are made to the operating system socket APIs. """ The

[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Nicolas Dumazet added the comment: > It's the other end which decides to return ENOTCONN upon shutdown(SHUT_RD) on > OS X, which is questionable > (not sure it's against the BSD socket API, since shutdown(SHUT_RD) doesn't > have any counterpart in the TCP layer). Exactly. The same code raises

[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Charles-François Natali added the comment: > I was scared by the note in the documentation and wondered if the > socket Python API was completely incapable of handling half-closed > connections cross platform. [...] > It makes it half-closed as it should Indeed. Calling shutdown(SHUT_WR) doesn'

[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

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[issue6774] socket.shutdown documentation: on some platforms, closing one half closes the other half

Mads Kiilerich added the comment: I was scared by the note in the documentation and wondered if the socket Python API was completely incapable of handling half-closed connections cross platform. pitrou helped me on IRC to track the note down to this issue. IMO the bug report should have been