From ccdf8bc04f0ea81c6c812a977f5c507fe8c26a3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:03:31 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] accept.2: Demote discussion of DECNet to NOTES DECNet ceased to be important long ago... Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/accept.2 | 27 ++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2 index 355b2a2e9..1c2a3773a 100644 --- a/man2/accept.2 +++ b/man2/accept.2 @@ -137,19 +137,6 @@ Alternatively, you can set the socket to deliver when activity occurs on a socket; see .BR socket (7) for details. -.PP -For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation, -such as -DECNet, -.BR accept () -can be thought of as merely dequeuing the next connection request and not -implying confirmation. -Confirmation can be implied by -a normal read or write on the new file descriptor, and rejection can be -implied by closing the new socket. -Currently, only -DECNet -has these semantics on Linux. If .IR flags @@ -354,6 +341,20 @@ needs to have the .B O_NONBLOCK flag set (see .BR socket (7)). + +For certain protocols which require an explicit confirmation, +such as +DECNet, +.BR accept () +can be thought of as merely dequeuing the next connection request and not +implying confirmation. +Confirmation can be implied by +a normal read or write on the new file descriptor, and rejection can be +implied by closing the new socket. +Currently, only +DECNet +has these semantics on Linux. +.\" .SS The socklen_t type The third argument of .BR accept ()