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(Fmake_network_process): Doc fix.
author Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
date Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:46:00 +0000
parents 1677cf1c2509
children f7416cac39e0
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--- a/src/process.c	Thu Sep 20 02:45:45 2007 +0000
+++ b/src/process.c	Thu Sep 20 02:46:00 2007 +0000
@@ -2722,7 +2722,9 @@
 
 :service SERVICE -- SERVICE is name of the service desired, or an
 integer specifying a port number to connect to.  If SERVICE is t,
-a random port number is selected for the server.
+a random port number is selected for the server.  (If Emacs was
+compiled with getaddrinfo, a port number can also be specified as a
+string, e.g. "80", as well as an integer.  This is not portable.)
 
 :type TYPE -- TYPE is the type of connection.  The default (nil) is a
 stream type connection, `datagram' creates a datagram type connection.