On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > <quote> > IP_MULTICAST_IF (since Linux 1.2) > Set the local device for a multicast socket. > Argument is an ip_mreqn or ip_mreq structure > similar to IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP. > </quote> > > That is not true. Setsockopt recognizes only ip_mreqn and in_addr. I > made patch which makes it recognize ip_mreq as well. So that would be > probably ok. > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/156815/ > > On the other hand, getsockopt works only with in_addr. That I think is > good behaviour but manpages here needs to be corrected in this way (read > part needs to be added here) Jirka, I'm having trouble to understand what you mean. Perhaps it would be simplest if you showed your proposed replacement text for the text quoted above. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
