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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-08-23 10:03:31 +1200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-08-23 10:03:31 +1200 |
| commit | ccdf8bc04f0ea81c6c812a977f5c507fe8c26a3c (patch) | |
| tree | 7931fb5526e14c3d096e4d81f90e0d43003d96bc /man2 | |
| parent | cb1bcdf28c7f8c1af0762ab0913729a94ad39aec (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-ccdf8bc04f0ea81c6c812a977f5c507fe8c26a3c.tar.gz | |
accept.2: Demote discussion of DECNet to NOTES
DECNet ceased to be important long ago...
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/accept.2 | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2 index 355b2a2e9a..1c2a3773ae 100644 --- a/man2/accept.2 +++ b/man2/accept.2 @@ -137,19 +137,6 @@ Alternatively, you can set the socket to deliver when activity occurs on a socket; see .BR socket (7) for details. -.PP -For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation, -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. If .IR flags @@ -354,6 +341,20 @@ needs to have the .B O_NONBLOCK flag set (see .BR socket (7)). + +For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation, +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. +.\" .SS The socklen_t type The third argument of .BR accept () |