Re: [PATCH] man page update (ip.7) to reflect new socket option in 2.6.31
From: Michael Kerrisk <hidden>
Date: 2009-07-25 04:43:42
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Hello Nivedita On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Nivedita Singhvi[off-list ref] wrote:
Nivedita Singhvi wrote:quoted
This patch adds the IP_MULTICAST_ALL option to the ip.7 man page, to bring it up to date with 2.6.31 development.Ah, the "since" is intended to be inclusive.
Yep ;-).
The 2.6.30 needs to be 2.6.31. Correct version below. Apologies!
No worries. Glad you caught it. Some belated comments below.
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Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> --- man7/ip.7 | 10 +++++++++- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7 index ab866a1..6932ba2 100644 --- a/man7/ip.7 +++ b/man7/ip.7@@ -357,7 +357,6 @@ and retrieve the MTU by callingwith the .B IP_MTU option. - It is possible to implement RFC 4821 MTU probing with .B SOCK_DGRAM or@@ -383,6 +382,15 @@ When an invalid socket option is passed,.B ENOPROTOOPT is returned. .TP +.BR IP_MULTICAST_ALL " (since Linux 2.6.31)" +Sets the multicast delivery policy to the socket. Argument is a boolean
Is the following better here: Sets the policy for multicast delivery to the socket ?
+integer that enables or disables multicast delivery from all groups. +If not set, delivery to the socket is restricted to data from those multicast +groups that have been explicitly subscribed to via a multicast join operation +for this socket. The default is 1 which means that a socket which is bound +to the wildcard address (INADDR_ANY) will receive multicast packets from all +groups that have been subscribed to on this system. +.TP .BR IP_MULTICAST_LOOP " (since Linux 1.2)"
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