doc: add udp recvfrom

JuliaLang · Dec 20, 2014 · 108578b · 108578b
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diff --git a/doc/stdlib/base.rst b/doc/stdlib/base.rst
@@ -2176,7 +2176,11 @@ Network I/O
 
 .. function:: recv(socket::UDPSocket)
 
-   Read a UDP packet from the specified socket, and return the bytes received. This call blocks.
+   Read a UDP packet from the specified socket, and return the message bytes received. This call blocks.
+
+.. function:: recvfrom(socket::UDPSocket) -> (address, data)
+
+    Read a UDP packet from the specified socket, returning a tuple of (address, data), where address will be either IPv4 or IPv6 as appropriate.
 
 .. function:: setopt(sock::UDPSocket; multicast_loop = nothing, multicast_ttl=nothing, enable_broadcast=nothing, ttl=nothing)