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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-01-23 05:18:32 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2014-01-23 15:36:04 +0100
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parentbf561a0fbcfed101aea2d523fe5cd50e90273786 (diff)
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tcp.7: Describe format of tcp_*_congestion_control /proc files
Describe format of tcp_allowed_congestion_control and tcp_available_congestion_control. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/tcp.76
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index f7288cc9e3..ff32fac148 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -289,9 +289,10 @@ Show/set the congestion control algorithm choices available to unprivileged
processes (see the description of the
.B TCP_CONGESTION
socket option).
+The items in the list are separated by white space and
+terminated by a newline character.
The list is a subset of those listed in
.IR tcp_available_congestion_control .
-.\" FIXME How are the items in this delimited? Null bytes, spaces, commas?
The default value for this list is "reno" plus the default setting of
.IR tcp_congestion_control .
.TP
@@ -299,7 +300,8 @@ The default value for this list is "reno" plus the default setting of
.\" The following is from 2.6.28-rc4: Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Show a list of the congestion-control algorithms
that are registered.
-.\" FIXME How are the items in this delimited? Null bytes, spaces, commas?
+The items in the list are separated by white space and
+terminated by a newline character.
This list is a limiting set for the list in
.IR tcp_allowed_congestion_control .
More congestion-control algorithms may be available as modules,