docs/142576: [patch] fix typos and missing params in the sctp man pages
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Sun Jan 10 16:50:02 UTC 2010
>Number: 142576
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] fix typos and missing params in the sctp man pages
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 10 16:50:00 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bruce Cran
>Release: 8.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD router.draftnet 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 3 23:30:01 GMT 2010 brucec at router.draftnet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROUTER i386
>Description:
The sctp manual pages contain a few mistakes including missing words, markup errors and missing parameter names. The attached patch fixes them.
>How-To-Repeat:
man sctp_connectx
man sctp_getpaddrs
man sctp_opt_info
man sctp_recvmsg
man sctp_sendmsg
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/net/sctp_recvmsg.3 2009-08-03 09:13:06.000000000 +0100
+++ sctp_recvmsg.3 2010-01-10 16:27:20.000000000 +0000
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_ppid
-is an opaque 32 bit value that is passed transparently
+field is an opaque 32 bit value that is passed transparently
through the stack from the peer endpoint.
Note that the stack passes this value without regard to byte
order.
@@ -180,12 +180,13 @@
When this flag is absent the message
was delivered in order within the stream it was received.
.Pp
+The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_stream
-is the SCTP stream that the message was received on.
+field is the SCTP stream that the message was received on.
Streams in SCTP are reliable (or partially reliable) flows of ordered
messages.
.Pp
-The
+The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_context
field is used only if the local application set an association level
context with the
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_ssn
-will hold the stream sequence number assigned
+field will hold the stream sequence number assigned
by the peer endpoint if the message is
.Em not
unordered.
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_tsn
-holds a transport sequence number (TSN) that was assigned
+field holds a transport sequence number (TSN) that was assigned
to this message by the peer endpoint.
For messages that fit in or less
than the path MTU this will be the only TSN assigned.
@@ -215,14 +216,14 @@
.Pp
The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_cumtsn
-holds the current cumulative acknowledgment point of
+field holds the current cumulative acknowledgment point of
the transport association.
Note that this may be larger
or smaller than the TSN assigned to the message itself.
.Pp
-The
+The
.Fa sinfo->sinfo_assoc_id
-is the unique association identification that was assigned
+field is the unique association identification that was assigned
to the association.
For one-to-many (SOCK_SEQPACKET) type
sockets this value can be used to send data to the peer without
@@ -232,10 +233,10 @@
(see
.Xr sctp 4 ) .
.Pp
-The
+The
.Fa sinfo->info_timetolive
field is not used by
-.Fa sctp_recvmsg .
+.Fn sctp_recvmsg .
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The call returns the number of characters sent, or -1
if an error occurred.
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/net/sctp_opt_info.3 2009-08-03 09:13:06.000000000 +0100
+++ sctp_opt_info.3 2010-01-10 15:56:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
.In sys/socket.h
.In netinet/sctp.h
.Ft int
-.Fn sctp_opt_info "int s" "sctp_assoc_t" "int opt" "void *arg" "socklen_t *size"
+.Fn sctp_opt_info "int s" "sctp_assoc_t asocid" "int opt" "void *arg" "socklen_t *size"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn sctp_opt_info
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/net/sctp_getpaddrs.3 2009-08-03 09:13:06.000000000 +0100
+++ sctp_getpaddrs.3 2010-01-10 16:00:48.000000000 +0000
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
.Fa addrs
upon success.
.Pp
-After the caller is through the function
+After the caller is finished, the function
.Fn sctp_freepaddrs
or
.Fn sctp_freeladdrs
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/net/sctp_connectx.3 2009-08-03 09:13:06.000000000 +0100
+++ sctp_connectx.3 2010-01-10 16:32:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
.In sys/socket.h
.In netinet/sctp.h
.Ft int
-.Fn sctp_connectx "int s" "struct sockaddr *" "int addrcnt" "sctp_assoc_t *"
+.Fn sctp_connectx "int s" "struct sockaddr *addrs" "int addrcnt" "sctp_assoc_t *asocid"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn sctp_connectx
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/net/sctp_sendmsg.3 2009-08-03 09:13:06.000000000 +0100
+++ sctp_sendmsg.3 2010-01-10 16:42:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
.Xr sendmsg 3 ,
.Xr sctp 4
.Sh BUGS
-Because in the one-to-many style socket the
+Because in the one-to-many style socket
.Fn sctp_sendmsg
or
.Fn sctp_sendmsgx
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