Author: jilles Date: Tue Oct 1 21:17:18 2013 New Revision: 255980 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255980
Log: accept(2): Update portability note for accept4(). The accept(2) man page warns that O_NONBLOCK and other properties on the new socket may vary across implementations. However, this issue only applies to accept() and not to accept4(). On the other hand, accept4() is not commonly available yet. Reported by: pluknet Reviewed by: bjk Approved by: re (kib) Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/accept.2 Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/accept.2 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/sys/accept.2 Tue Oct 1 20:18:33 2013 (r255979) +++ head/lib/libc/sys/accept.2 Tue Oct 1 21:17:18 2013 (r255980) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)accept.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 1, 2013 +.Dd October 1, 2013 .Dt ACCEPT 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -155,13 +155,20 @@ For some applications, performance may b .Xr accept_filter 9 to pre-process incoming connections. .Pp -Portable programs should not rely on the +When using +.Fn accept , +portable programs should not rely on the .Dv O_NONBLOCK and .Dv O_ASYNC properties and the signal destination being inherited, but should set them explicitly using -.Xr fcntl 2 . +.Xr fcntl 2 ; +.Fn accept4 +sets these properties consistently, +but may not be fully portable across +.Ux +platforms. .Sh RETURN VALUES These calls return \-1 on error. If they succeed, they return a non-negative _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
