On 08/18/2014 11:58 AM, Michael Haardt wrote: > Hello, > > the manual page does not describe the state of a socket after a > failed connect call. Surprisingly, there are TCP/IP stacks where > it is unusable (met one today). Opengroup also specifies that > as allowed behaviour, so the manual should mention it. Hello Michael Thanks for the patch. I applied it, but dropped the piece "Although it works in Linux". Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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