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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2010-11-15 06:26:41 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2010-11-15 06:26:41 +0100
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unix.7: Reworded the text of various errors
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -315,14 +315,14 @@ defined in
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EADDRINUSE
-Selected local address is already taken or file system socket
+The specified local address is already taken or the file system socket
object already exists.
.TP
.B ECONNREFUSED
+The remote address specified by
.BR connect (2)
-called with a socket object that isn't listening.
-This can happen when
-the remote socket does not exist or the filename is not a socket.
+was not a listening socket.
+This can happen when the target filename is not a socket.
.TP
.B ECONNRESET
Remote socket was unexpectedly closed.
@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@ User memory address was not valid.
.TP
.B EINVAL
Invalid argument passed.
-A common cause is the missing setting of
+A common cause is that the value
.B AF_UNIX
-in the
+was not specified in the
.I sun_type
-field of passed addresses or the socket being in an
+field of passed addresses, or the socket was in an
invalid state for the applied operation.
.TP
.B EISCONN