Re: man-pages-3.55 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2014 - 17:59:58 EST


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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