The sockoption in question can be getsockopt-ed since kernel 3.8. Mention this fact in the respective section of socket(7) page. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7 index 32ec131..2f915da 100644 --- a/man7/socket.7 +++ b/man7/socket.7 @@ -308,6 +308,14 @@ sockets. It is not supported for packet sockets (use normal .BR bind (2) there). + +This option is available for getting since Linux 3.8. The option +length should contain the buffer size to receive the device name +and is recommended to be +.BR IFNAMSZ +bytes. The real device name length is reported back in the option +length argument. + .TP .B SO_BROADCAST Set or get the broadcast flag. -- 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
