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From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 22:16:39 -0400

> It looks like a bug to me, feel free to send along a patch :)

Is it?  The quoted text is only about setting the value and what
effect setting -1 or whatever has.

For getting the value, the behavior described sounds just fine.

The default for a socket is whatever the kernel-wide default is.