Document that bind(2) and connect(2) ignore the incoming sa_len

suggest by and ok deraadt@
wordsmithing jmc@

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/bind.2 b/lib/libc/sys/bind.2
index f70856da6ca..789f228d64c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/bind.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/bind.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: bind.2,v 1.20 2015/01/19 15:54:11 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: bind.2,v 1.21 2015/10/11 07:25:11 guenther Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: bind.2,v 1.8 1995/10/12 15:40:46 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)bind.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 19 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2015 $
 .Dt BIND 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -53,7 +53,11 @@ be assigned to the socket.
 .Fa namelen
 indicates the amount of space pointed to by
 .Fa name ,
-in bytes.
+in bytes; the
+.Fa sa_len
+member of
+.Fa name
+is ignored.
 .Sh NOTES
 Binding a name in the
 .Ux Ns -domain
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/connect.2 b/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
index ba31df444a5..ff6d3ee5f09 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/connect.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: connect.2,v 1.26 2015/09/10 17:55:21 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: connect.2,v 1.27 2015/10/11 07:25:11 guenther Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: connect.2,v 1.8 1995/10/12 15:40:48 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)connect.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2015 $
 .Dt CONNECT 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ which is an address in the communications space of the socket.
 .Fa namelen
 indicates the amount of space pointed to by
 .Fa name ,
-in bytes.
+in bytes; the
+.Fa sa_len
+member of
+.Fa name
+is ignored.
 Each communications space interprets the
 .Fa name
 parameter in its own way.