From: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> Synchronizing the manpage with the new POSIX compliant behavior of shutdown(). A warning message is kept to indicate possible problems with the old behavior of UNIX domain sockets. See bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47111 Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> --- man2/shutdown.2 | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/shutdown.2 b/man2/shutdown.2 index ab39cfd..2174de3 100644 --- a/man2/shutdown.2 +++ b/man2/shutdown.2 @@ -102,14 +102,11 @@ respectively, and are defined in .I <sys/socket.h> since glibc-2.1.91. .SH BUGS -As currently implemented, -checks for the validity of -.I how -are done in domain-specific code, and not all domains perform these checks. -.\" FIXME . -.\" https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47111 -Most notably, UNIX domain sockets simply ignore invalid values; -this may change in the future. +This implementation is POSIX compliant since version 3.7-rc1. Previously, UNIX +domain and DECnet sockets simply ignored invalid values of +.IR how , +due to a domain-specific code. Applications that used invalid values to +circumvent this lack should be corrected. .SH SEE ALSO .BR connect (2), .BR socket (2), -- 2.1.4 -- 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