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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-12-01 09:42:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-12-01 09:42:01 +0100 |
| commit | 7f11e32c394e3e232487896fba022b0e7ab0bf0c (patch) | |
| tree | 48b9a96a57e711735a53f783fac342f5c94f592f /man2/socket.2 | |
| parent | 735e291284d39820b160afd8d6af04e1ddb2da44 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7f11e32c394e3e232487896fba022b0e7ab0bf0c.tar.gz | |
accept.2, copy_file_range.2, eventfd.2, inotify_init.2, pipe.2, readahead.2, signalfd.2, socket.2, timerfd_create.2: Clarify the distinction between "file descriptor" and "file description"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/socket.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/socket.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/socket.2 b/man2/socket.2 index b4a5727da0..fed3f4e253 100644 --- a/man2/socket.2 +++ b/man2/socket.2 @@ -258,7 +258,9 @@ to modify the behavior of .B SOCK_NONBLOCK Set the .BR O_NONBLOCK -file status flag on the new open file description. +file status flag on the open file description (see +.BR open (2)) +referred to by the new file descriptor. Using this flag saves extra calls to .BR fcntl (2) to achieve the same result. |