Hello Nikola On 03/11/2016 11:02 AM, Nikola Forró wrote: > 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 Thanks for the patch. I've applied it. However, the story is a little more complex, because according to POSIX the type is 'socklen_t'. So, I added some words in both pages point this out. Cheers, Michael > 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 > -- 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
