tnb2d> As it turns out, the real answer is the guy here who
tnb2d> needed and wrote this method did not know an fcntl module
tnb2d> existed! And besides, it never hurts to put the
tnb2d> functionality related to an object as close to the object
tnb2d> (i.e. *in* it) as possible.
It definitely doens't hurt in this case, because the socketmodule
has been ported to WinNT, where fcntl doesn't work. The NT
equivalent of the new feature can be added to the socketmodule so
that code which uses it works anywhere sockets work.
-- Dave Brennan HaL Computer Systems, Austin, TX, USA brennan@hal.com http://www.hal.com/~brennan