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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-04-18 16:15:11 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-04-19 14:18:59 +0200
commit92cedf330e379678aecd8e765323b65e1cdeed27 (patch)
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parent7d247ee8ab24bf83c7b4ee665ed547eab123bf4f (diff)
downloadman-pages-92cedf330e379678aecd8e765323b65e1cdeed27.tar.gz
tcp.7: Note that 'optval' for socket options is an 'int' in most cases
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
.\" commit b139ba4e90dccbf4cd4efb112af96a5c9e0b098c
.\" Author: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
.\"
-.TH TCP 7 2012-04-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TCP 7 2013-04-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
tcp \- TCP protocol
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -862,6 +862,10 @@ to read or
.BR setsockopt (2)
to write the option with the option level argument set to
.BR IPPROTO_TCP .
+Unless otherwise noted,
+.I optval
+is a pointer to an
+.IR int .
.\" or SOL_TCP on Linux
In addition,
most