Index: socket.rst
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--- socket.rst	(revision 74542)
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 Shut down one or both halves of the connection. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RD`,
 further receives are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_WR`, further sends
 are disallowed. If *how* is :const:`SHUT_RDWR`, further sends and receives are
- disallowed.
+ disallowed. Depending on the platform, shutting down one half of the connection
+ can also close the opposite half (e.g. on Mac OS X, ``shutdown(SHUT_WR)`` does
+ not allow further reads on the other end of the connection).
 
 Note that there are no methods :meth:`read` or :meth:`write`; use :meth:`recv`
 and :meth:`send` without *flags* argument instead.
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