On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> Thanks Pavel. Applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > > 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. -- 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
