From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan Mueller Subject: [PATCH] socket.2: document AF_ALG Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 17:29:34 +0100 Message-ID: <2022953.c9E5IKVA29@tauon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: 'Herbert Xu' List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2). Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller CC: Herbert Xu --- man2/socket.2 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/socket.2 b/man2/socket.2 index 229dab3..8885079 100644 --- a/man2/socket.2 +++ b/man2/socket.2 @@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ Low level packet interface T}:T{ .BR packet (7) T} +T{ +.B AF_ALG +T}:T{ +Interface to kernel crypto API +T} .TE .PP The socket has the indicated @@ -378,6 +383,12 @@ families. However, already the BSD man page promises: "The protocol family generally is the same as the address family", and subsequent standards use AF_* everywhere. + +The AF_ALG protocol type is added with kernel version 2.6.38. More +information on this interface is provided with +Documentation/crypto/crypto-API-userspace.txt provided in the +Linux kernel source code tree. + .SH EXAMPLE An example of the use of .BR socket () -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html