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accept.2: Simplify the discussion of 'socklen_t' 

We don't really need to list the old OSes in this discussion.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-12-09 13:00:46 +01:00
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@ -353,13 +353,15 @@ implied by closing the new socket.
Currently, only DECnet has these semantics on Linux.
.\"
.SS The socklen_t type
The third argument of
In the original BSD sockets implementation (and on other older systems)
.\" such as Linux libc4 and libc5, SunOS 4, SGI
the third argument of
.BR accept ()
was originally declared as an \fIint\ *\fP (and is that under libc4 and libc5
and on many other systems like 4.x BSD, SunOS 4, SGI); a POSIX.1g draft
standard wanted to change it into a \fIsize_t\ *\fP, and that is what it is
for SunOS 5.
Later POSIX standards and glibc 2.x have
was declared as an \fIint\ *\fP.
A POSIX.1g draft
standard wanted to change it into a \fIsize_t\ *\fPC;
.\" SunOS 5 has 'size_t *'
later POSIX standards and glibc 2.x have
.IR "socklen_t\ * ".
.SH EXAMPLE
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