Re: [PATCH] connect.2: Document error semantics of nonblocking UNIX domain sockets.

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Hello Benjamin,

On 08/23/2018 06:13 AM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> connect(2) on a nonblocking UNIX domain socket when the receive queue is full
> results in EAGAIN [1]. This is unlike other connection-based socket families
> that return EINPROGRESS as already documented.

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/unix/af_unix.c?id=815f0ddb346c196018d4d8f8f55c12b83da1de3f#n1267
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man2/connect.2 | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/connect.2 b/man2/connect.2
> index 5941cf2d3..313f73add 100644
> --- a/man2/connect.2
> +++ b/man2/connect.2
> @@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ The passed address didn't have the correct address family in its
>  field.
>  .TP
>  .B EAGAIN
> -Insufficient entries in the routing cache.
> +For nonblocking UNIX domain sockets, the socket is nonblocking, and the
> +connection cannot be completed immediately. For other socket families, there are
> +insufficient entries in the routing cache.
>  .TP
>  .B EALREADY
>  The socket is nonblocking and a previous connection attempt has not yet
> @@ -188,7 +190,9 @@ The socket structure address is outside the user's address space.
>  .TP
>  .B EINPROGRESS
>  The socket is nonblocking and the connection cannot be completed
> -immediately.
> +immediately. (UNIX domain sockets return
> +.BR EAGAIN
> +instead.)
>  It is possible to
>  .BR select (2)
>  or
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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