[CC widended] Tobias, On 7 August 2017 at 13:53, Tobias Klausmann <klausman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > This bug pertains to the manpage as visible on man7.org right > now. > > The socket(7) man page has this paragraph: > > SO_RXQ_OVFL (since Linux 2.6.33) > Indicates that an unsigned 32-bit value ancillary message (cmsg) should be attached to > received skbs indicating the number of packets dropped by the socket between the last > received packet and this received packet. > > The second half is wrong: the counter (internally, > SOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->dropcount is *not* reset after every packet. > That is, it is a proper counter, not a gauge, in monitoring > parlance. > > A better version of that paragraph: > > SO_RXQ_OVFL (since Linux 2.6.33) > Indicates that an unsigned 32-bit value ancillary message (cmsg) should be attached to > received skbs indicating the number of packets dropped by the socket since its > creation. Thanks for the report. See also my reply to Petr in just a moment. I've taken your suggested text change. Cheers, 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
