netintro(4) is a great manual page that provides a basic introduction to
network facilities, I think it is well worth mentioning in the
socket(2).
I also think we can incorporate this reference somewhere in the text as
well, but I'm not sure, maybe the reference in the SEE ALSO section
would be enough.
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55032
While here, make wider use of Dv for socket types and protocol families
and reference fcntl(2) flags for the `type` argument values.
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: glebius, ziaee
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54434
Create a chapter on every important socket type: stream, datagram,
seqpacket. Always list what protocol families do support what kinds of
sockets. Improve some statements possessing language from the
specification [1]. Reduce some statements that are mostly specific to
TCP. Provide more external links and references to various important
syscalls that can be used on sockets.
Add a paragrph on non-blocking mode.
The big factual change is documentation of SOCK_SEQPACKET. In FreeBSD 15
this socket now fully follows the specification and is a stream socket
with record boundaries.
[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_16_10_06
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52771
Remove core system call implementations and documentation to lib/libsys
and lib/libsys/<arch> from lib/libc/sys and lib/libc/<arch>/<sys>.
Update paths to allow libc to find them in their new home.
Reviewed by: kib, emaste, imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/908
Wolfram Schneider