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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 10:49:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-06-20 14:08:30 +0200 |
| commit | 9574e8b06142423e3650b17639f73c3d765da7bf (patch) | |
| tree | 9e828535a0b2638eab1e55c36dcf92f82e1387ec /man7/unix.7 | |
| parent | 89657ef57d75c7c0b21f5df6bd37fe45f2333ba0 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-9574e8b06142423e3650b17639f73c3d765da7bf.tar.gz | |
unix.7: Note that abstract sockets automatically disappear when FDs are closed
Added after I ran across this question:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216784/does-linux-automatically-clean-up-abstract-domain-sockets
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7 index 25e0b0aebb..b0483b67c3 100644 --- a/man7/unix.7 +++ b/man7/unix.7 @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ the first .IR "(addrlen \- sizeof(sa_family_t))" bytes of .IR sun_path . +Abstract sockets automatically disappear when all open references +to the socket are closed. The abstract socket namespace is a nonportable Linux extension. .SS Pathname sockets When binding a socket to a pathname, a few rules should be observed |