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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-08-23 19:45:16 +1200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-08-23 19:45:16 +1200
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accept.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
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@@ -343,17 +343,14 @@ flag set (see
.BR socket (7)).
For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation,
-such as
-DECNet,
+such as DECnet,
.BR accept ()
can be thought of as merely dequeuing the next connection request and not
implying confirmation.
Confirmation can be implied by
a normal read or write on the new file descriptor, and rejection can be
implied by closing the new socket.
-Currently, only
-DECNet
-has these semantics on Linux.
+Currently, only DECnet has these semantics on Linux.
.\"
.SS The socklen_t type
The third argument of