[PATCH] iproute2: clarifications in the libnetlink.3 man page
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From: Reeuwijk, C. van <hidden>
Date: 2013-01-31 16:09:12
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Kees van Reeuwijk [off-list ref] Rephrasing for clarity. Signed-off-by: Kees van Reeuwijk <redacted> --- libnetlink.3 | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libnetlink.3 b/libnetlink.3
index 15a478a..4c70678 100644
--- a/libnetlink.3
+++ b/libnetlink.3@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ in case of error. NULL for means to not use a filter. .B junk is used to filter messages not destined to the local socket. -Only one message bundle is received. Unless there is no message +Only one message bundle is received. If there is a message pending, this function does not block. .TP
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ is a callback that gets the message source address, the message itself, and the .B jarg cookie as arguments. It will get called for all received messages. -Only one message bundle is received. Unless there is no message +Only one message bundle is received. If there is a message pending this function does not block. .TP
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ but reads a netlink message bundle from the file .B file and passes the messages to .B handler -for parsing. The file contains raw data as received from a rtnetlink socket. +for parsing. The file should contain raw data as received from a rtnetlink socket. .PP The following functions are useful to construct custom rtnetlink messages. For simple database dumping with filtering it is better to use the higher level
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Dr. ir. Kees van Reeuwijk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam