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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 15:45:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-09-11 15:45:32 +0300 |
| commit | 38a8241e9ea88cf73e15f4e528a4e0861c0471e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b3e60be1fe21de1ff7178c9359906cd7bed49c6 | |
| parent | d012ce842450625a53277cf175f12fd1779ecea3 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-38a8241e9ea88cf73e15f4e528a4e0861c0471e6.tar.gz | |
Issue #20100: Clarify that passing flags to epoll() has no effect
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/select.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/select.rst b/Doc/library/select.rst index 6cec9f764b..a465d25d8a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/select.rst +++ b/Doc/library/select.rst @@ -57,9 +57,7 @@ The module defines the following: (Only supported on Linux 2.5.44 and newer.) Return an edge polling object, which can be used as Edge or Level Triggered interface for I/O - events. *sizehint* is deprecated and completely ignored. *flags* can be set - to :const:`EPOLL_CLOEXEC`, which causes the epoll descriptor to be closed - automatically when :func:`os.execve` is called. + events. *sizehint* and *flags* are deprecated and completely ignored. See the :ref:`epoll-objects` section below for the methods supported by epolling objects. @@ -77,6 +75,10 @@ The module defines the following: Support for the :keyword:`with` statement was added. The new file descriptor is now non-inheritable. + .. deprecated:: 3.4 + The *flags* parameter. ``select.EPOLL_CLOEXEC`` is used by default now. + Use :func:`os.set_inheritable` to make the file descriptor inheritable. + .. function:: poll() |