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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-11-27 14:31:25 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-11-27 14:31:25 +0000
commitdac9e2378e720b36efd8db5233285b63392bbfa2 (patch)
tree54959c110373bff07062bd1c83aaa89f445339f7 /lib
parentdda23ed639e2bedcbff5149b0a6891b04ae63e1f (diff)
document that `s' must be of type SOCK_STREAM; from Alf Schlichting;
also .Xr unix(4);
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/getpeereid.213
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getpeereid.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getpeereid.2
index d556dbd7fd1..3fc91e9841a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getpeereid.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getpeereid.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: getpeereid.2,v 1.5 2003/06/02 20:18:39 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: getpeereid.2,v 1.6 2003/11/27 14:31:24 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn getpeereid
returns the effective user ID and group ID of the peer connected to
-the UNIX domain socket
-.Fa s .
+a UNIX domain socket (see
+.Xr unix 4 ) .
+The argument
+.Fa s
+must be of type
+.Dv SOCK_STREAM .
.Pp
One common use is for UNIX domain servers to determine the credentials
of clients that have connected to it.
@@ -106,7 +110,8 @@ process address space.
.Xr bind 2 ,
.Xr getpeername 2 ,
.Xr getsockname 2 ,
-.Xr socket 2
+.Xr socket 2 ,
+.Xr unix 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn getpeereid