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changeset: 84822:be4cc946b9df parent: 84820:be5f1f0bea09 parent: 84821:68fce7587f72 user: R David Murray rdmurray@bitdance.com date: Thu Jul 25 13:24:40 2013 -0400 description: Merge #15130: remove repeat of abstract paragraph from socket howto body. diff -r be5f1f0bea09 -r be4cc946b9df Doc/howto/sockets.rst --- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst Thu Jul 25 12:15:28 2013 -0400 +++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst Thu Jul 25 13:24:40 2013 -0400 @@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ Sockets ======= -Sockets are used nearly everywhere, but are one of the most severely -misunderstood technologies around. This is a 10,000 foot overview of sockets. -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 (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 /rdmurray@bitdance.com