Issue #26685: Raise OSError if closing a socket fails
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 9be1a9c..8bf2847 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -514,6 +514,10 @@
* :func:`spwd.getspnam` now raises a :exc:`PermissionError` instead of
:exc:`KeyError` if the user doesn't have privileges.
+* The :meth:`socket.socket.close` method now raises an exception if
+ an error (e.g. EBADF) was reported by the underlying system call.
+ See :issue:`26685`.
+
Changes in the C API
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