Re: [PATCH 02/24] man/man7/unix.7: Socket options: SOL_SOCKET is a level, not a family

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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> Date: 2026-10-18 12:49:18+0200
> From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
>
> > 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>

and

Fixes: 9d1fd1157306 (1999-06-15, 2022-12-19; "man-pages 1.24")

> 
> > 
> > Notes:
> >     Obvious terminology confusion, compare getsockopt(2)

Agree.


Cheers,
Alex

> > 
> >  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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