From patchwork Thu Jan 31 16:03:44 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Reeuwijk, C. van" X-Patchwork-Id: 217208 X-Patchwork-Delegate: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491822C008D for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 03:09:17 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755193Ab3AaQJN (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:09:13 -0500 Received: from mailin.vu.nl ([130.37.164.18]:7167 "EHLO mailin.vu.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755190Ab3AaQJM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:09:12 -0500 Received: from PEXHB012B.vu.local (130.37.236.67) by mailin.vu.nl (130.37.164.18) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:03:49 +0100 Received: from PEXMB001B.vu.local ([169.254.8.4]) by PEXHB012B.vu.local ([130.37.236.67]) with mapi id 14.02.0298.004; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:03:44 +0100 From: "Reeuwijk, C. van" To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH] iproute2: clarifications in the libnetlink.3 man page Thread-Topic: [PATCH] iproute2: clarifications in the libnetlink.3 man page Thread-Index: AQHN/8yLjHRQpE/2dEuGrW94LfEWNQ== Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:03:44 +0000 Message-ID: <9C96F25D-CB12-42BC-99C4-CBB70741E967@cs.vu.nl> Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [130.37.166.4] Content-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: Kees van Reeuwijk Rephrasing for clarity. Signed-off-by: Kees van Reeuwijk --- libnetlink.3 | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/libnetlink.3 b/libnetlink.3 index 15a478a..4c70678 100644 --- a/libnetlink.3 +++ b/libnetlink.3 @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ in case of error. NULL for means to not use a filter. .B junk is used to filter messages not destined to the local socket. -Only one message bundle is received. Unless there is no message +Only one message bundle is received. If there is a message pending, this function does not block. .TP @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ is a callback that gets the message source address, the message itself, and the .B jarg cookie as arguments. It will get called for all received messages. -Only one message bundle is received. Unless there is no message +Only one message bundle is received. If there is a message pending this function does not block. .TP @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ but reads a netlink message bundle from the file .B file and passes the messages to .B handler -for parsing. The file contains raw data as received from a rtnetlink socket. +for parsing. The file should contain raw data as received from a rtnetlink socket. .PP The following functions are useful to construct custom rtnetlink messages. For simple database dumping with filtering it is better to use the higher level