Hi Eric, On 02/02/2016 12:35 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Documentation for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT socket option > added in linux-4.2 > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90c337da1524863838658078ec34241f45d8394d Thanks for the patch. I've applied, and tweaked a little. It would be good to add a couple of sentences about why this option is useful and what use case it allows. Could you come up with something? Thanks, Michael PS How about a patch for SO_MAX_PACING_RATE for the socket(7) page :-) ? > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man7/ip.7 | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 > index 1c51a50..f8d4e63 100644 > --- a/man7/ip.7 > +++ b/man7/ip.7 > @@ -338,6 +338,11 @@ application wants to receive data from. > This option can be used multiple times to allow > receiving data from more than one source. > .TP > +.BR IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT " (since Linux 4.2) > +Instruct kernel to not reserve an ephemeral port at bind() time. > +The port will be automatically chosen at connect() time, in a way > +that allows sharing a source port as long as the 4-tuples are unique. > +.TP > .BR IP_BLOCK_SOURCE " (since Linux 2.4.22 / 2.5.68)" > Stop receiving multicast data from a specific source in a given group. > This is valid only after the application has subscribed > > > -- 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
