socket-module: different behaviour on windows / unix when a timeout is set

[A.T.Hofkamp]

On 2008-07-09, Mirko Vogt <lists at nanl.de> wrote:
> Is that behaviour common or even documented? Found nothing.
Second sentence in the socket module documentation:

Note: Some behavior may be platform dependent, since calls are made to the
operating system socket APIs.


So yes, what you found is probably how it should behave.

Albert