.\" Modified Oct 2003 by aeb
.\" Modified 2004-07-01 by mtk
.\"
-.TH SEND 2 2012-04-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SEND 2 2013-12-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
send, sendto, sendmsg \- send a message on a socket
.SH SYNOPSIS
of zero or more of the following flags.
.\" FIXME ? document MSG_PROXY (which went away in 2.3.15)
.TP
-.BR MSG_CONFIRM " (Since Linux 2.3.15)"
+.BR MSG_CONFIRM " (since Linux 2.3.15)"
Tell the link layer that forward progress happened: you got a successful
reply from the other side.
If the link layer doesn't get this
Terminates a record (when this notion is supported, as for sockets of type
.BR SOCK_SEQPACKET ).
.TP
-.BR MSG_MORE " (Since Linux 2.4.4)"
+.BR MSG_MORE " (since Linux 2.4.4)"
The caller has more data to send.
This flag is used with TCP sockets to obtain the same effect
as the
.\" msg_control* fields.
.\" The flags returned in msg_flags.
.SH RETURN VALUE
-On success, these calls return the number of characters sent.
+On success, these calls return the number of bytes sent.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set appropriately.