Hello Cortland, On 06/16/2011 07:55 PM, Cortland Setlow wrote: > Hi, > > In the packet (7) manpage ( I retrieved the HTML version from > kernel.orgtoday ) it says > "For bind only sll_protocol and sll_ifindex are used." but I get EINVAL > unless I also > use sll_family. Could you amend this sentence to say that sll_family is > used for binding? > > Granted, the man page already says that sll_family is always AF_PACKET, > but it wasn't very clear to me. Either way, best regards. Long after the fact... Agreed it would be helpful to mention 'sll_family' here. I've added it. Thanks, 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