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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-23 07:56:56 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-06-23 07:56:56 +0000
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@@ -73,19 +73,19 @@ struct sockaddr_un {
.fi
.in -0.25i
-.B sun_family
+.I sun_family
always contains
.BR AF_UNIX .
-.B sun_path
+.I sun_path
contains the zero-terminated pathname of the socket in the file system.
If
-.B sun_path
+.I sun_path
starts with a null byte (''\0'),
then it refers to the abstract namespace maintained by
the Unix protocol module.
The socket's address in this namespace is given by the rest of the
bytes in
-.BR sun_path .
+.IR sun_path .
Note that names in the abstract namespace are not zero-terminated.
.SS Socket Options
For historical reasons these socket options are specified with a
@@ -147,13 +147,13 @@ type even though they are
.B PF_UNIX
specific.
To send them set the
-.B cmsg_level
+.I cmsg_level
field of the struct
-.B cmsghdr
+.I cmsghdr
to
.B SOL_SOCKET
and the
-.B cmsg_type
+.I cmsg_type
field to the type.
For more information see
.BR cmsg (3).