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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man2/recv.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/recv.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/recv.2 | 48 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2 index 81cd1957cb..31899df825 100644 --- a/man2/recv.2 +++ b/man2/recv.2 @@ -480,9 +480,32 @@ and The file descriptor .I sockfd does not refer to a socket. +.SH VERSIONS +According to POSIX.1, +.\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 +the +.I msg_controllen +field of the +.I msghdr +structure should be typed as +.IR socklen_t , +and the +.I msg_iovlen +field should be typed as +.IR int , +but glibc currently types both as +.IR size_t . +.\" glibc bug for msg_controllen raised 12 Mar 2006 +.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448 +.\" The problem is an underlying kernel issue: the size of the +.\" __kernel_size_t type used to type these fields varies +.\" across architectures, but socklen_t is always 32 bits, +.\" as (at least with GCC) is int. .SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, -4.4BSD (these interfaces first appeared in 4.2BSD). +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, +4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD). .PP POSIX.1 describes only the .BR MSG_OOB , @@ -510,27 +533,6 @@ type was invented by POSIX. See also .BR accept (2). .PP -According to POSIX.1, -.\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 -the -.I msg_controllen -field of the -.I msghdr -structure should be typed as -.IR socklen_t , -and the -.I msg_iovlen -field should be typed as -.IR int , -but glibc currently types both as -.IR size_t . -.\" glibc bug for msg_controllen raised 12 Mar 2006 -.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448 -.\" The problem is an underlying kernel issue: the size of the -.\" __kernel_size_t type used to type these fields varies -.\" across architectures, but socklen_t is always 32 bits, -.\" as (at least with GCC) is int. -.PP See .BR recvmmsg (2) for information about a Linux-specific system call |