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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/unix.4')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/unix.4 b/share/man/man4/unix.4 index 6f5d2c8..7356edb 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/unix.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/unix.4 @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ that provides local (on-machine) interprocess communication through the normal .Xr socket 2 mechanisms. -The +The .Tn UNIX Ns -domain family supports the .Dv SOCK_STREAM @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The protocol family does not support broadcast addressing or any form of .Dq wildcard -matching on incoming messages. +matching on incoming messages. All addresses are absolute- or relative-pathnames of other .Tn UNIX Ns -domain @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ or .Xr sendto 2 must be writable. .Sh PROTOCOLS -The +The .Tn UNIX Ns -domain protocol family is comprised of simple transport protocols that support the @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ and .Dv SOCK_DGRAM abstractions. .Dv SOCK_STREAM -sockets also support the communication of +sockets also support the communication of .Ux file descriptors through the use of the .Ar msg_control @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ and .Xr recvmsg 2 . .Pp Any valid descriptor may be sent in a message. -The file descriptor(s) to be passed are described using a +The file descriptor(s) to be passed are described using a .Ar struct cmsghdr that is defined in the include file .Aq Pa sys/socket.h . @@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ by the length field of the message; the length field is the sum of the size of the header plus the size of the array of file descriptors. .Pp -The received descriptor is a +The received descriptor is a .Em duplicate of the sender's descriptor, as if it were created with a call to .Xr dup 2 . Per-process descriptor flags, set with .Xr fcntl 2 , -are +are .Em not passed to a receiver. Descriptors that are awaiting delivery, or that are |
