From 987475c9568c12d411e74e301ccfd12f7be4f06a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:54:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Explain that INET is IPv4 and STREAM is TCP. --- Doc/howto/sockets.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst index 04e9b98b2c2..80e98f7b7ea 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ It's not really a tutorial - you'll still have work to do in getting things working. It doesn't cover the fine points (and there are a lot of them), but I hope it will give you enough background to begin using them decently. -I'm only going to talk about INET sockets, but they account for at least 99% of -the sockets in use. And I'll only talk about STREAM sockets - unless you really +I'm only going to talk about INET (i.e. IPv4) sockets, but they account for at least 99% of +the sockets in use. And I'll only talk about STREAM (i.e. TCP) sockets - unless you really know what you're doing (in which case this HOWTO isn't for you!), you'll get better behavior and performance from a STREAM socket than anything else. I will try to clear up the mystery of what a socket is, as well as some hints on how to