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Diffstat (limited to 'man7/socket.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/socket.7 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7 index bee9c3ec9b..97e5a8c108 100644 --- a/man7/socket.7 +++ b/man7/socket.7 @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ tells the socket that new connections shall be accepted, and .BR accept (2) is used to get a new socket with a new incoming connection. .BR socketpair (2) -returns two connected anonymous sockets (only implemented for a few +returns two connected anonymous sockets (implemented only for a few local families like .BR AF_UNIX ) .PP @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ interface name string with the maximum size of If a socket is bound to an interface, only packets received from that particular interface are processed by the socket. -Note that this only works for some socket types, particularly +Note that this works only for some socket types, particularly .B AF_INET sockets. It is not supported for packet sockets (use normal @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ This socket option is read-only. Expects an integer. .TP .B SO_DONTROUTE -Don't send via a gateway, only send to directly connected hosts. +Don't send via a gateway, send only to directly connected hosts. The same effect can be achieved by setting the .B MSG_DONTROUTE flag on a socket @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ capability. .B SO_OOBINLINE If this option is enabled, out-of-band data is directly placed into the receive data stream. -Otherwise out-of-band data is only passed when the +Otherwise out-of-band data is passed only when the .B MSG_OOB flag is set during receiving. .\" don't document it because it can do too much harm. @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ For more information see .TP .B SO_PEERCRED Return the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket. -This is only possible for connected +This is possible only for connected .B AF_UNIX stream sockets and .B AF_UNIX @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ See for a description of .IR "struct timeval" . .\" -This ioctl should only be used if the socket option +This ioctl should be used only if the socket option .B SO_TIMESTAMP is not set on the socket. Otherwise, it returns the timestamp of the |