https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20082 --- Comment #2 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-10-13 04:33:08 --- (In reply to comment #0) > IP_FREEBIND is one of my favourite sockopts ;-) , as it allows race-free > listening on any socket without requiring the network interface to be up. Would > be cool to document this in inet(7). How does the following look? +.TP +.BR IP_FREEBIND " (since Linux 2.4)" +.\" Precisely: 2.4.0-test10 +If enabled, this boolean option allows binding to an IP address +that is nonlocal or does not (yet) exist. +This permits listening on a socket, +without requiring the underlying network interface or the +specified dynamic IP address to be up at the time that +the application is trying to bind to it. +This option is the per-socket equivalent of the +.IR ip_nonlocal_bind +.I /proc +interface described below. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
