Hi Stéphane, On 03/04/2015 12:20 AM, saulery@xxxxxxx wrote: > From: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> > > Fix for Debian bug #472447 reported by David Madore <david.madore@xxxxxx> I know it's tiresome, but it's nice to have a URL for easy clicking: https://bugs.debian.org/472447 But, I am skeptical about the bug report. The reporter says that the page "[does not] mention SOL_IPV6 as an alternative to IPPROTO_IPV6 for socket level. It would be nice if it could." This is not a very useful report. *Why* would it be nice? SOL_IPV6 is not in any standard as far as I can see, nor on any other implementation. Furthermore, ip(7) says of the analogous "SOL_IP" constant: Using SOL_IP socket options level isn't portable, BSD-based stacks use IPPROTO_IP level. So, it appears to me that mentioning SOL_IPV6 is just leading people into a portability trap. In general: one must question bug reports. The reporter may suggest that something is true or desirable, but that needs explanation or justification. Summary: I won't apply this. (I would entertain a patch that mention SOL_IPV6 in NOTES, with a careful note that it is nonportable.) Cheers, Michael > > Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@xxxxxxx> > --- > man7/ipv6.7 | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man7/ipv6.7 b/man7/ipv6.7 > index c4e6cac..cd1af35 100644 > --- a/man7/ipv6.7 > +++ b/man7/ipv6.7 > @@ -195,7 +195,9 @@ IPv6 supports some protocol-specific socket options that can be set with > and read with > .BR getsockopt (2). > The socket option level for IPv6 is > -.BR IPPROTO_IPV6 . > +.BR IPPROTO_IPV6 > +(or its alternative > +.BR SOL_IPV6 ). > A boolean integer flag is zero when it is false, otherwise true. > .TP > .B IPV6_ADDRFORM > -- 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
