From 5f09a92997fd5f741170cb460e032e65e0826fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:29:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] recv.2: Add an .SS head for discussion of 'flags' Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/recv.2 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2 index 3b25e262b..a1768f6ba 100644 --- a/man2/recv.2 +++ b/man2/recv.2 @@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ and system calls are used to receive messages from a socket. They may be used to receive data on both connectionless and connection-oriented sockets. +This page first describes common features of all three system calls, +and then describes the differences between the calls. .PP All three routines return the length of the message on successful completion. @@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ An application can used or .BR epoll (7) to determine when more data arrives on a socket. -.PP +.SS The flags argument The .I flags argument is formed by ORing one or more of the following values: