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Adding SO_MARK for socket(7)

PATCH In review Elie De Brauwer 2 participants 2 messages Jun 30, 2012 – Jul 7, 2012 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 Adding SO_MARK for socket(7)

Hello,

In attachment a patch which adds a section on SO_MARK in man 7 socket, this was already marked in the todo of the page and has a bugzilla entry ( https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461 ) which can be closed as well.

my 2 cents
E.

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From b350b4f4e368c001f98604f346eb8685eb180649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Elie De Brauwer <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:15:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added entry for SO_MARK, fixes bug 16461

Signed-off-by Elie De Brauwer <[email protected]>
---
 man7/socket.7 |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
man7/socket.7 +6 -1
index a0e186a..ee282f3 100644
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 .\" The following are not yet documented:
 .\"	SO_PEERNAME
 .\"	SO_TIMESTAMPNS
-.\"	SO_MARK (see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461)
 .\"	SO_TIMESTAMPING (2.6.30)
 .\"	SO_RXQ_OVFL (2.6.33)
 .\"

@@ -320,6 +319,12 @@ When the socket is closed as part of
 .BR exit (2),
 it always lingers in the background.
 .TP
+.B SO_MARK " (since Linux 2.6.25)"
+Allows the specification of a mark which gets set on all outgoing
+messages (similar as the netfilter MARK target. This requires the
+.B CAP_NET_ADMIN
+capability.
+.TP
 .B SO_OOBINLINE
 If this option is enabled,
 out-of-band data is directly placed into the receive data stream.
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1.7.10

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Hello,

In attachment a patch which adds a section on SO_MARK in man 7 socket, this was already marked in the todo of the page and has a bugzilla entry (
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461 ) which can be closed as well.

Elie,

Thanks -- I've applied a patch that is close to the SO_MARK text in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461.

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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