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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-19 04:30:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-05-19 04:30:20 +0000 |
| commit | 2b2581ee37f080c0a95d20aedecd5cb04e81ef4a (patch) | |
| tree | 4ce1a3bcc3cd8793e50f48abba8eab04c8e7ea07 /man7/socket.7 | |
| parent | 2dd578fd5b80cbfe5892b200633aa1442c4ac674 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-2b2581ee37f080c0a95d20aedecd5cb04e81ef4a.tar.gz | |
Fix inconsistencies in order of .SH sections
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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7 index d49d0bb6ed..cf34236182 100644 --- a/man7/socket.7 +++ b/man7/socket.7 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ .\" FIXME probably all PF_* should be AF_* in this page, since .\" POSIX only specifies the latter values. .\" +.\" FIXME Section titles and orderings in this page are very inconsistent .TH SOCKET 7 2004-05-27 "Linux 2.6.6" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME socket \- Linux socket interface @@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ or See .BR socket (2) for more information on families and types. -.SH "SOCKET LAYER FUNCTIONS" +.SS Socket Layer Functions These functions are used by the user process to send or receive packets and to do other socket operations. For more information see their respective manual pages. @@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ must be installed via See the .I SIGNALS discussion below. -.SH "SOCKET OPTIONS" +.SS Socket Options These socket options can be set by using .BR setsockopt (2) and read with @@ -487,7 +488,7 @@ Gets the socket type as an integer (like Can only be read with .BR getsockopt (2). -.SH SIGNALS +.SS Signals When writing onto a connection-oriented socket that has been shut down (by the local or the remote end) .B SIGPIPE @@ -530,8 +531,8 @@ single socket), the condition that caused the may have already disappeared when the process reacts to the signal. If this happens, the process should wait again because Linux will resend the signal later. -.\" .SH ANCILLARY MESSAGES -.SH SYSCTLS +.\" .SS Ancillary Messages +.SH Sysctls The core socket networking sysctls can be accessed using the .I /proc/sys/net/core/* files or with the @@ -567,7 +568,7 @@ Maximum number of packets in the global input queue. Maximum length of ancillary data and user control data like the iovecs per socket. .\" netdev_fastroute is not documented because it is experimental -.SH IOCTLS +.SS Ioctls These operations can be accessed using .BR ioctl (2): @@ -653,6 +654,18 @@ The same as the SIOCGPGRP .BR FIOSETOWN The same as the SIOCSPGRP .BR ioctl (2). +.SH VERSIONS +.B SO_BINDTODEVICE +was introduced in Linux 2.0.30. +.B SO_PASSCRED +is new in Linux 2.2. +The sysctls are new in Linux 2.2. +.B SO_RCVTIMEO +and +.B SO_SNDTIMEO +are supported since Linux 2.3.41. +Earlier, timeouts were fixed to +a protocol specific setting, and could not be read or written. .SH NOTES Linux assumes that half of the send/receive buffer is used for internal kernel structures; thus the sysctls are twice what can be observed @@ -677,18 +690,6 @@ are not documented. The suggested interface to use them is via the libpcap library. -.SH VERSIONS -.B SO_BINDTODEVICE -was introduced in Linux 2.0.30. -.B SO_PASSCRED -is new in Linux 2.2. -The sysctls are new in Linux 2.2. -.B SO_RCVTIMEO -and -.B SO_SNDTIMEO -are supported since Linux 2.3.41. -Earlier, timeouts were fixed to -a protocol specific setting, and could not be read or written. .\" .SH AUTHORS .\" This man page was written by Andi Kleen. .SH "SEE ALSO" |