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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man2/getsockopt.2 b/man2/getsockopt.2 deleted file mode 100644 index baf3395..0000000 --- a/man2/getsockopt.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,172 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-4-Clause-UC -.\" -.\" $Id: getsockopt.2,v 1.1 1999/05/24 14:57:04 freitag Exp $ -.\" -.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 16:19:32 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Modified Mon Apr 22 02:29:06 1996 by Martin Schulze (joey@infodrom.north.de) -.\" Modified Tue Aug 27 10:52:51 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.\" Modified Thu Jan 23 13:29:34 1997 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.\" Modified Sun Mar 28 21:26:46 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.\" Modified 1999 by Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>. -.\" Removed most stuff because it is in socket.7 now. -.\" -.TH getsockopt 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -getsockopt, setsockopt \- get and set options on sockets -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <sys/socket.h> -.P -.BI "int getsockopt(int " sockfd ", int " level ", int " optname , -.BI " void " optval "[restrict *." optlen ], -.BI " socklen_t *restrict " optlen ); -.BI "int setsockopt(int " sockfd ", int " level ", int " optname , -.BI " const void " optval [. optlen ], -.BI " socklen_t " optlen ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR getsockopt () -and -.BR setsockopt () -manipulate options for the socket referred to by the file descriptor -.IR sockfd . -Options may exist at multiple -protocol levels; they are always present at the uppermost -socket level. -.P -When manipulating socket options, the level at which the -option resides and the name of the option must be specified. -To manipulate options at the sockets API level, -.I level -is specified as -.BR SOL_SOCKET . -To manipulate options at any -other level the protocol number of the appropriate protocol -controlling the option is supplied. -For example, -to indicate that an option is to be interpreted by the -.B TCP -protocol, -.I level -should be set to the protocol number of -.BR TCP ; -see -.BR getprotoent (3). -.P -The arguments -.I optval -and -.I optlen -are used to access option values for -.BR setsockopt (). -For -.BR getsockopt () -they identify a buffer in which the value for the -requested option(s) are to be returned. -For -.BR getsockopt (), -.I optlen -is a value-result argument, initially containing the -size of the buffer pointed to by -.IR optval , -and modified on return to indicate the actual size of -the value returned. -If no option value is to be supplied or returned, -.I optval -may be NULL. -.P -.I Optname -and any specified options are passed uninterpreted to the appropriate -protocol module for interpretation. -The include file -.I <sys/socket.h> -contains definitions for socket level options, described below. -Options at -other protocol levels vary in format and name; consult the appropriate -entries in section 4 of the manual. -.P -Most socket-level options utilize an -.I int -argument for -.IR optval . -For -.BR setsockopt (), -the argument should be nonzero to enable a boolean option, or zero if the -option is to be disabled. -.P -For a description of the available socket options see -.BR socket (7) -and the appropriate protocol man pages. -.SH RETURN VALUE -On success, zero is returned for the standard options. -On error, \-1 is returned, and -.I errno -is set to indicate the error. -.P -Netfilter allows the programmer -to define custom socket options with associated handlers; for such -options, the return value on success is the value returned by the handler. -.SH ERRORS -.TP -.B EBADF -The argument -.I sockfd -is not a valid file descriptor. -.TP -.B EFAULT -The address pointed to by -.I optval -is not in a valid part of the process address space. -For -.BR getsockopt (), -this error may also be returned if -.I optlen -is not in a valid part of the process address space. -.TP -.B EINVAL -.I optlen -invalid in -.BR setsockopt (). -In some cases this error can also occur for an invalid value in -.I optval -(e.g., for the -.B IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP -option described in -.BR ip (7)). -.TP -.B ENOPROTOOPT -The option is unknown at the level indicated. -.TP -.B ENOTSOCK -The file descriptor -.I sockfd -does not refer to a socket. -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -POSIX.1-2001, -SVr4, 4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD). -.\" SVr4 documents additional ENOMEM and ENOSR error codes, but does -.\" not document the -.\" .BR SO_SNDLOWAT ", " SO_RCVLOWAT ", " SO_SNDTIMEO ", " SO_RCVTIMEO -.\" options -.SH BUGS -Several of the socket options should be handled at lower levels of the -system. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR ioctl (2), -.BR socket (2), -.BR getprotoent (3), -.BR protocols (5), -.BR ip (7), -.BR packet (7), -.BR socket (7), -.BR tcp (7), -.BR udp (7), -.BR unix (7) |