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Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/socket.7 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7 index 824982f0c7..a901cb22c4 100644 --- a/man7/socket.7 +++ b/man7/socket.7 @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ This option has no effect on stream-oriented sockets. .B SO_BSDCOMPAT Enable BSD bug-to-bug compatibility. This is used by the UDP protocol module in Linux 2.0 and 2.2. -If enabled ICMP errors received for a UDP socket will not be passed +If enabled, ICMP errors received for a UDP socket will not be passed to the user program. In later kernel versions, support for this option has been phased out: Linux 2.4 silently ignores it, and Linux 2.6 generates a kernel warning @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ or (for .BR connect (2)) just as if the socket was specified to be nonblocking. -If the timeout is set to zero (the default) +If the timeout is set to zero (the default), then the operation will never timeout. Timeouts only have effect for system calls that perform socket I/O (e.g., .BR read (2), |