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authorFX Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com>2014-01-22 05:39:46 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-22 21:57:05 -0800
commiteb97768acb3f7749a3a03ee35fee9088244113ea (patch)
treeabbc318766141c15d4dc2ec0f6f55f549ff70d0a /include/linux/socket.h
parenttuntap: Fix for a race in accessing numqueues (diff)
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net: update comments of "struct msghdr" with the more accurate RFC3542 ones
Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/socket.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/socket.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index 5d488a65ad20..8e98297f1388 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ struct linger {
*/
struct msghdr {
- void * msg_name; /* Socket name */
- int msg_namelen; /* Length of name */
- struct iovec * msg_iov; /* Data blocks */
- __kernel_size_t msg_iovlen; /* Number of blocks */
- void * msg_control; /* Per protocol magic (eg BSD file descriptor passing) */
- __kernel_size_t msg_controllen; /* Length of cmsg list */
- unsigned int msg_flags;
+ void *msg_name; /* ptr to socket address structure */
+ int msg_namelen; /* size of socket address structure */
+ struct iovec *msg_iov; /* scatter/gather array */
+ __kernel_size_t msg_iovlen; /* # elements in msg_iov */
+ void *msg_control; /* ancillary data */
+ __kernel_size_t msg_controllen; /* ancillary data buffer length */
+ unsigned int msg_flags; /* flags on received message */
};
/* For recvmmsg/sendmmsg */