The type shown for cmsg_len member of cmsghdr structure is socklen_t, but the actual type used by glibc and the kernel is size_t. The information was obtained from glibc source code: http://bit.ly/21m1RMp Signed-off-by: Nikola Forró <nforro@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/recv.2 | 6 +++--- man3/cmsg.3 | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2 index 33265b8..0491880 100644 --- a/man2/recv.2 +++ b/man2/recv.2 @@ -393,9 +393,9 @@ The messages are of the form: .nf struct cmsghdr { - socklen_t cmsg_len; /* data byte count, including hdr */ - int cmsg_level; /* originating protocol */ - int cmsg_type; /* protocol-specific type */ + size_t cmsg_len; /* data byte count, including hdr */ + int cmsg_level; /* originating protocol */ + int cmsg_type; /* protocol-specific type */ /* followed by unsigned char cmsg_data[]; */ }; diff --git a/man3/cmsg.3 b/man3/cmsg.3 index f1c4459..f97333f 100644 --- a/man3/cmsg.3 +++ b/man3/cmsg.3 @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ CMSG_ALIGN, CMSG_SPACE, CMSG_NXTHDR, CMSG_FIRSTHDR \- access ancillary data .sp .nf struct cmsghdr { - socklen_t cmsg_len; /* data byte count, including header */ - int cmsg_level; /* originating protocol */ - int cmsg_type; /* protocol-specific type */ + size_t cmsg_len; /* data byte count, including header */ + int cmsg_level; /* originating protocol */ + int cmsg_type; /* protocol-specific type */ /* followed by unsigned char cmsg_data[]; */ }; .fi -- 2.4.3 -- 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
