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| -rw-r--r-- | man7/socket.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7 index bc9118bdcc..24796c02c5 100644 --- a/man7/socket.7 +++ b/man7/socket.7 @@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ Otherwise, out-of-band data is passed only when the flag is set during receiving. .\" don't document it because it can do too much harm. .\".B SO_NO_CHECK +.\" The kernel has support for the SO_NO_CHECK socket +.\" option (boolean: 0 == default, calculate checksum on xmit, +.\" 1 == do not calculate checksum on xmit). +.\" Additional note from Andi Kleen on SO_NO_CHECK (2010-08-30) +.\" On Linux UDP checksums are essentially free and there's no reason +.\" to turn them off and it would disable another safety line. +.\" That is why I didn't document the option. .TP .B SO_PASSCRED Enable or disable the receiving of the |