I'm trying to update the description of MSG_TRUNC as an *input* flag value for calls to recv*(). I'd appreciate it if someone could could confirm the changes in the following patch to the recv(2) man page. (Dave, it looks like you implemented (commit commit b558ff799977a4eda8b3823d1cf6c1c33becb671) at least some of the parts that I'm trying to document here... ) Cheers, Michael -.TH RECV 2 2008-07-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH RECV 2 2008-12-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME recv, recvfrom, recvmsg \- receive a message from a socket .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -254,9 +254,18 @@ Thus, a subsequent receive call will return the same data. .TP .BR MSG_TRUNC " (since Linux 2.2)" -Return the real length of the packet, even when it was longer than -the passed buffer. -Only valid for packet sockets. +For raw +.RB ( AF_PACKET ), +Internet datagram (since Linux 2.4.27/2.6.8), +and netlink (since Linux 2.6.22) sockets: +return the real length of the packet or datagram, +even when it was longer than the passed buffer. +Not implemented for Unix domain +.RP ( unix (7)) +sockets. + +For use with Internet stream sockets, see +.BR tcp (7). .TP .BR MSG_WAITALL " (since Linux 2.2)" This flag requests that the operation block until the full request is -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
