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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-09-17 09:42:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-09-19 10:18:46 +0200 |
| commit | 29494dfeb8dba557e0b458a21b10a61dbd64a1ab (patch) | |
| tree | 923e4f65e0d5614ddbc35836c664a4b6bc3f4843 /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | 14c11c826ae10350a3bfcac2f5b1557f5e713f7e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-29494dfeb8dba557e0b458a21b10a61dbd64a1ab.tar.gz | |
ip.7, unix.7: Minor edits to Stephen Smalley's patches
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/unix.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unix.7 | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 42f0b31ee7..8bdad50a36 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -364,15 +364,15 @@ into which the security context string will be copied. If the buffer length is less than the length of the security context string, then .BR getsockopt (2) -will return the required length via -.I optlen -and return \-1 and sets +returns \-1, sets .I errno to -.BR ERANGE . +.BR ERANGE , +and returns the required length via +.IR optlen . The caller should allocate at least .BR NAME_MAX -bytes for the buffer initially although this is not guaranteed +bytes for the buffer initially, although this is not guaranteed to be sufficient. Resizing the buffer to the returned length and retrying may be necessary. @@ -382,14 +382,14 @@ in the returned length, but is not guaranteed to do so: a security context "foo" might be represented as either {'f','o','o'} of length 3 or {'f','o','o','\\0'} of length 4, which are considered to be interchangeable. -It is printable, does not contain non-terminating null characters, -and is in an unspecified encoding (in particular it +The string is printable, does not contain non-terminating null characters, +and is in an unspecified encoding (in particular, it is not guaranteed to be ASCII or UTF-8). .IP The use of this option for sockets in the .B AF_UNIX -address family is supported since Linux 2.6.2 for connected stream sockets and -since Linux 4.18, +address family is supported since Linux 2.6.2 for connected stream sockets, +and since Linux 4.18 .\" commit 0b811db2cb2aabc910e53d34ebb95a15997c33e7 also for stream and datagram socket pairs created using .BR socketpair (2). |