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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-07-01 04:23:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-07-01 04:23:34 +0000 |
| commit | 10f5f2947677ed6af286d58d150dab6beaac7d30 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fec5fd3a8c6e2a7cbce4a601641ac2cbd19ce9a /man7/netlink.7 | |
| parent | 02e6bca3024c1e3d70453046068887b239dd9c1d (diff) | |
s/bitmask/bit mask/
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/netlink.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/netlink.7 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/netlink.7 b/man7/netlink.7 index d9535e47..bac30acc 100644 --- a/man7/netlink.7 +++ b/man7/netlink.7 @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ opens and assigns a unique to every netlink socket that the process subsequently creates. .I nl_groups -is a bitmask with every bit representing a netlink group number. +is a bit mask with every bit representing a netlink group number. Each netlink family has a set of 32 multicast groups. When .BR bind (2) @@ -331,12 +331,12 @@ is called on the socket, the .I nl_groups field in the .I sockaddr_nl -should be set to a bitmask of the groups which it wishes to listen to. +should be set to a bit mask of the groups which it wishes to listen to. The default value for this field is zero which means that no multicasts will be received. A socket may multicast messages to any of the multicast groups by setting .I nl_groups -to a bitmask of the groups it wishes to send to when it calls +to a bit mask of the groups it wishes to send to when it calls .BR sendmsg (2) or does a .BR connect (2). |