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diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2 index 340fdb8..bc73416 100644 --- a/man2/accept.2 +++ b/man2/accept.2 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ .\" Modified 2004-06-17 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> .\" 2008-12-04, mtk, Add documentation of accept4() .\" -.TH accept 2 2023-04-05 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH accept 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME accept, accept4 \- accept a connection on a socket .SH LIBRARY @@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <sys/socket.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int accept(int " sockfd ", struct sockaddr *_Nullable restrict " addr , .BI " socklen_t *_Nullable restrict " addrlen ); -.PP +.P .BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" .B #include <sys/socket.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int accept4(int " sockfd ", struct sockaddr *_Nullable restrict " addr , .BI " socklen_t *_Nullable restrict " addrlen ", int " flags ); .fi @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ The newly created socket is not in the listening state. The original socket .I sockfd is unaffected by this call. -.PP +.P The argument .I sockfd is a socket that has been created with @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ bound to a local address with .BR bind (2), and is listening for connections after a .BR listen (2). -.PP +.P The argument .I addr is a pointer to a @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ When is NULL, nothing is filled in; in this case, .I addrlen is not used, and should also be NULL. -.PP +.P The .I addrlen argument is a value-result argument: @@ -79,12 +79,12 @@ the caller must initialize it to contain the size (in bytes) of the structure pointed to by .IR addr ; on return it will contain the actual size of the peer address. -.PP +.P The returned address is truncated if the buffer provided is too small; in this case, .I addrlen will return a value greater than was supplied to the call. -.PP +.P If no pending connections are present on the queue, and the socket is not marked as nonblocking, @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ fails with the error .B EAGAIN or .BR EWOULDBLOCK . -.PP +.P In order to be notified of incoming connections on a socket, you can use .BR select (2), .BR poll (2), @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Alternatively, you can set the socket to deliver when activity occurs on a socket; see .BR socket (7) for details. -.PP +.P If .I flags is 0, then @@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached. .B ENFILE The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached. .TP -.BR ENOBUFS ", " ENOMEM +.B ENOBUFS +.TQ +.B ENOMEM Not enough free memory. This often means that the memory allocation is limited by the socket buffer limits, not by the system memory. @@ -241,7 +243,7 @@ Firewall rules forbid connection. .TP .B EPROTO Protocol error. -.PP +.P In addition, network errors for the new socket and as defined for the protocol may be returned. Various Linux kernels can @@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ needs to have the .B O_NONBLOCK flag set (see .BR socket (7)). -.PP +.P For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation, such as DECnet, .BR accept () |