tags 794217 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello Goswin,

On 07/31/2015 12:41 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.74-1
> Severity: minor
> File: socketpair
> 
> Hi,
> 
> reading 'man 2 socketpair' it is unclear where the new SOCK_NONBLOCK
> and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags go in the function call. One has to read
> through "man 2 socket" to discover that the type argument now also
> serves as flags.
> 
> I recommend making this a bit clearer by changing the Notes from:
> 
>        Since   Linux  2.6.27,  socketpair()  supports  the  SOCK_NONBLOCK  and
>        SOCK_CLOEXEC flags described in socket(2).
> 
> to:
> 
>        Since   Linux  2.6.27,  socketpair()  supports  the  SOCK_NONBLOCK  and
>        SOCK_CLOEXEC flags in the _type_ argument as described in socket(2).

Thanks for the report. I've changed the upstream page, as you propose.

MfG aus München

Michael


> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386, armel
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
> ii  manpages  3.61-1
> 
> manpages-dev recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests:
> ii  man-db [man-browser]  2.6.7.1-1
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/


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