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Subject: docs/11057: error in the man page for listen(2)
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>Number:         11057
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       error in the man page for listen(2)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 10 06:50:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Marco Molteni
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD nympha.ecomotor.it 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0:
Thu Apr  1 15:17:49 CEST 1999
root@nympha.ecomotor.it:/usr/src/sys/compile/NYMPHA  i386

>Description:
while reading the man page for the listen system call on a FreeBSD
3.1-RELEASE box, I noticed (what I think is) a typo: it refers to a
non existent sysctl variable ``kern.somaxconn'' while it should be
``kern.ipc.somaxconn''.


>How-To-Repeat:
man listen ;-)
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/listen.2      Fri Apr 11 20:47:06 1997
+++ listen.2    Thu Apr  8 11:17:47 1999
@@ -74,15 +74,15 @@
 The
 .Xr sysctl 3
 MIB variable
-.Dq Li kern.somaxconn
+.Dq Li kern.ipc.somaxconn
 specifies a hard limit on
 .Fa backlog ;
 if a  value greater than
-.Li kern.somaxconn
+.Li kern.ipc.somaxconn
 or less than zero is specified,
 .Fa backlog
 is silently forced to
-.Li kern.somaxconn .
+.Li kern.ipc.somaxconn .
 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
 .Pp
 In the non-threaded library



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