From a771a1b48e7fcf73b13e905f87f319fcd4cb25b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles-Francois Natali <cf.natali@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 15:12:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #17529: Fix os.sendfile() documentation regarding the
 type of file descriptor supported.

---
 Doc/library/os.rst | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index e70c8869cef..6d4fb041083 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -999,9 +999,8 @@ as internal buffering of data.
    On Mac OS X and FreeBSD, a value of 0 for *nbytes* specifies to send until
    the end of *in* is reached.
 
-   On Solaris, *out* may be the file descriptor of a regular file or the file
-   descriptor of a socket. On all other platforms, *out* must be the file
-   descriptor of an open socket.
+   All platforms support sockets as *out* file descriptor, and some platforms
+   allow other types (e.g. regular file, pipe) as well.
 
    Availability: Unix.