Hello Sam, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The current version of getaddrinfo(3) seems to have some a small amount > of duplicative text, possibly a small cut-paste fudge.
Not sure. It seems this text goes back to the (your) original version of the page. (To begin with, I had wondered if I'd messed up on some edits that I later made to the page.) > Describing the results placed into the returned addrinfo struct: > > The members > .IR ai_family , > .IR ai_socktype , > and > .I ai_protocol > have the same meaning as the corresponding parameters in the > .BR socket (2) > system call. > > > Then, two paragraphs later: > > .IR ai_family , > .IR ai_socktype , > and > .I ai_protocol > specify the socket creation parameters. > > Even those the immediately preceding sentence refers to the hints input > parameter, this sentence seems to refer to the output addrinfo struct > again, and just restates the description given two paragraphs earlier. Yep -- I've consolidated the duplicated text into a single sentence, and also removed a bit of duplications elsewhere. I also rewrote the discussion of hints==NULL a bit, to provide some more detail. Chnages will be in 2.79. thanks! Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
