Issue #7631: Fix undefined references to the "built-in file object", which
has ceased to be.
diff --git a/Doc/library/socket.rst b/Doc/library/socket.rst
index ec8ff3d..0fee6d5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/socket.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/socket.rst
@@ -575,14 +575,16 @@
.. index:: single: I/O control; buffering
- Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. (File objects are
- described in :ref:`bltin-file-objects`.) The file object references a
- :cfunc:`dup`\ ped version of the socket file descriptor, so the file object
- and socket object may be closed or garbage-collected independently. The
- socket must be in blocking mode (it can not have a timeout). The optional
+ Return a :dfn:`file object` associated with the socket. The exact
+ returned type depends on the arguments given to :meth:`makefile`. These
arguments are interpreted the same way as by the built-in :func:`open`
function.
+ The returned file object references a :cfunc:`dup`\ ped version of the
+ socket file descriptor, so the file object and socket object may be
+ closed or garbage-collected independently. The socket must be in
+ blocking mode (it can not have a timeout).
+
.. method:: socket.recv(bufsize[, flags])