Re: [manpages]: Version 2 of a udplite(7) manpage

["Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

[Restored linux-man to CC]

Hi Gerrit,

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:05 PM,  <gerrit-VsoRXqaLlyfQzY9nttDBhA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>> I made one or two small edits.  The most notable
>> is that I changed PF_INET to AF_INET in the SYNOPSIS.  (As fas as POSIX.1
>> is concerned, the PF_* constants are obsolete, in favour of the AF_*
>> constants with the same value.)  I think we're good to go otherwise, and
>> I'll include this page in man-pages-3.07, unless you think some further
>> work still needs to be done.
>>
> I can't think of further work items at the moment.

Good.  udplite.7 will be in man-pages-3.07.  Thanks for writing it!

> Thank you for the AF/PF
> clarification, something which continues to confuse me (and likely others).
>
> Since I copied the example from udp(7), would it make sense to extend this
> update to that manpage as well? A quick check in tcp(7) and ip(7), raw(7),
> socket(7) showed that somehow the AF/PF ambiguity appears in other places
> as well (netlink(7) is likely not Posix).

Yes, it's been one of those nagging little tasks I've been meaning to
do for a while.  (My reluctance has been in part about whether I
should "erase history" -- the pseudo-distinction between AF_ and PF_
is longstanding, but has also been meaningless since the beginning.)
So, you're comment finally prompted me to do it.  In man-pages-3.07,
everything is now AF_*.

Thanks

Michael




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