* [PATCH] gai.conf.5: Fix syntax and description for 'label' keyword
@ 2026-01-06 10:40 Simon Essien
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From: Simon Essien @ 2026-01-06 10:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: alx; +Cc: linux-man, champbreed1
The documentation incorrectly listed 'precedence' as the parameter for
'label'. Updated it to 'label-value' to match the actual glibc
implementation and RFC 3484.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208879
Signed-off-by: Simon Essien <champbreed1@gmail.com>
---
man/man5/gai.conf.5 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man5/gai.conf.5 b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
index d80c23311..b95598e14 100644
--- a/man/man5/gai.conf.5
+++ b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Lines starting with \[aq]#\[aq] are comments and are ignored.
.P
The keywords currently recognized are:
.TP
-.BI label\~ netmask\~precedence
+.BI label\~ netmask\~label-value
The value is added to the label table used in the RFC\ 3484 sorting.
If any
.B label
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ the default table is not used.
All the label definitions
of the default table which are to be maintained have to be duplicated.
Following the keyword,
-the line has to contain a network mask and a precedence value.
+the line has to contain a network mask and a label value.
.TP
.BI precedence\~ netmask\~precedence
This keyword is similar to
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