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From: "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Günther Noack" <gnoack3000@gmail.com>,
	"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EPROTONOSUPPORT: Protocol 0 is also accepted
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:07:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261021210800.27338-8-gnoack3000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021210800.27338-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com>

unix_create() in linux.git net/unix/af_unix.c starts with this check:

	if (protocol && protocol != PF_UNIX)
        	return -EPROTONOSUPPORT;

Therefore, not only AF_UNIX (a.k.a. PF_UNIX) is accepted as a protocol
value in the unix(7) socket(2) invocation, but also 0.  0 is the usual
value, and is also given as example in the SYNOPSIS at the top of
unix(7).

Fixes: 9d1fd1157306 (1999-06-15, 2022-12-19; "man-pages 1.24")
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack <gnoack3000@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
    I double checked it in the code.

 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 29843235def0..054f1af75dd5 100644
--- a/man/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man/man7/unix.7
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ or
 .BR sendmsg (2).
 .TP
 .B EPROTONOSUPPORT
-Passed protocol is not
+Passed protocol is neither 0 nor
 .BR AF_UNIX .
 .TP
 .B EPROTOTYPE
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-21 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-21 21:07 [PATCH 0/8] {unix,socket,bind}.7: General Unix Domain Socket fixes Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 1/8] man/man7/socket.7: SO_PEEK_OFF: This option is no longer specific to unix(7) Günther Noack
2026-10-23 18:20   ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-10-26 20:48     ` Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:27   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 2/8] man/man7/unix.7: SO_PEERCRED: Also works for SOCK_SEQPACKET Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:28   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 3/8] man/man7/unix.7: SIOCINQ: Document behavior " Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:34   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 20:59     ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 4/8] man/man7/unix.7: Explain Abstract UDS scoping to the network namespace Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:39   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:11     ` Günther Noack
2026-10-27  5:12       ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-27  7:58         ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 5/8] man/man7/unix.7: SOCK_RAW is accepted as an alias for SOCK_DGRAM Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:44   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:13     ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` Günther Noack [this message]
2026-10-24  5:47   ` [PATCH 6/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: EPROTONOSUPPORT: Protocol 0 is also accepted Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:15     ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:07 ` [PATCH 7/8] man/man2/bind.2: ERRORS: EACCES: Write permission on the directory is required Günther Noack
2026-10-24  5:56   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-24  5:58     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:16       ` Günther Noack
2026-10-21 21:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] man/man7/unix.7: ERRORS: Document EACCES, EAGAIN, EMSGSIZE, ENOSPC, and EPERM Günther Noack
2026-10-24  6:03   ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-10-26 21:27     ` Günther Noack

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