Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2024-08-06

Re: [PATCH] wfix: accept4(2) SOCK_NONBLOCK flag

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2024-08-06 10:22:05

Hello Jan,

On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 11:19:32AM GMT, Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak wrote:
The description of SOCK_NONBLOCK is a bit confusing:
"description" versus "descriptor", "open file" instead of "new file".
The "open file description" is a very specific thing.  See
<https://biriukov.dev/docs/fd-pipe-session-terminal/1-file-descriptor-and-open-file-description/>

Have a lovely day!
Alex
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Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <redacted>
---
 man/man2/accept.2 | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/accept.2 b/man/man2/accept.2
index afc04603c..65a56e37f 100644
--- a/man/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man/man2/accept.2
@@ -124,12 +124,13 @@ The following values can be bitwise ORed in
 to obtain different behavior:
 .TP 16
 .B SOCK_NONBLOCK
-Set the
-.B O_NONBLOCK
-file status flag on the open file description (see
-.BR open (2))
-referred to by the new file descriptor.
-Using this flag saves extra calls to
+Set the non-blocking
+.B ( O_NONBLOCK )
+file status flag on the new file descriptor.
+See the description of this flag in
+.BR open (2)
+for details.
+Using this flag saves an extra call to
 .BR fcntl (2)
 to achieve the same result.
 .TP
-- 
2.45.2

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