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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-26 11:31:06 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-12-26 11:31:06 +0000
commit24d693835111fca24a471465da8abc3b3603bf62 (patch)
tree3df978c8380ad28aeaa870cc872ae79e2a5b2c63
parenta43eed0cdc30fc09125c4129d60c491b66116a23 (diff)
downloadman-pages-24d693835111fca24a471465da8abc3b3603bf62.tar.gz
Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC.
-rw-r--r--man7/socket.79
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7
index 8d41e265e5..3f1ed48a1d 100644
--- a/man7/socket.7
+++ b/man7/socket.7
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" FIXME probably all PF_* should be AF_* in this page, since
.\" POSIX only specifies the latter values.
.\"
-.TH SOCKET 7 2007-08-28 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SOCKET 7 2007-12-28 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
socket \- Linux socket interface
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ via a
.B SIGIO
signal.
For that the
-.B FASYNC
+.B O_ASYNC
flag must be set on a socket file descriptor via
.BR fcntl (2)
and a valid signal handler for
@@ -647,6 +647,11 @@ signal or the signal set with
is raised when a new I/O event occurs.
.IP
Argument is an integer boolean flag.
+(This operation is synonymous with the use of
+.BR fcntl(2)
+to set the
+.B O_ASYNC
+flag.)
.\"
.TP
.B SIOCGPGRP