> Date: 2026-10-16 19:31:17+0200
> From: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
>
> SOL_SOCKET is passed as the "level" argument of getsockopt(2) and
> setsockopt(2); it is not a socket family.  See setsockopt(2).
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

> 
> Notes:
>     Obvious terminology confusion, compare getsockopt(2)
> 
>  man/man7/unix.7 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/unix.7 b/man/man7/unix.7
> index 75e125c61673..1a94b00c6783 100644
> --- a/man/man7/unix.7
> +++ b/man/man7/unix.7
> @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ and read with
>  .BR getsockopt (2)
>  by specifying
>  .B SOL_SOCKET
> -as the socket family.
> +as the level.
>  .TP
>  .B SO_PASSCRED
>  Enabling this socket option causes receipt of the credentials of
> -- 
> 2.56.0
> 

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