Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Dec 2013 09:55:27 +1300 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | Re: man-pages-3.55 is released |
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On 12/31/13 01:41, Dongsheng Song wrote: > Hi, > > Excerpt from http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/socket.2.html : > > Some socket types may not be implemented by all protocol families; > for example, SOCK_SEQPACKET is not implemented for AF_INET. > > This is not correct now, as Linux already had SCTP support. > > Excerpt from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6458#section-3.1.1 : > > and one uses PF_INET or PF_INET6 as the domain, SOCK_SEQPACKET as the > type, and IPPROTO_SCTP as the protocol. > > Here, SOCK_SEQPACKET indicates the creation of a one-to-many style > socket. > > Regards, > Dongsheng
Hello Dongsheng,
Thanks for the report. I've updated the page to remove that crufty text:
> for example, SOCK_SEQPACKET is not implemented for AF_INET.
For the future, bugs are best reported in a new subject line; see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html Cheers,
Michael
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