LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / accept.2

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+++ b/original/man2/accept.2
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(BSD_4_CLAUSE_UCB)
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 .\" are met:
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
 .\" Modified 1996-10-21 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@
 .\"
 .TH ACCEPT 2 2010-09-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
-accept \- accept a connection on a socket
+accept, accept4 \- accept a connection on a socket
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
 .BR "#include <sys/types.h>" "          /* See NOTES */"
@@ -175,14 +177,14 @@ See the description of the
 flag in
 .BR open (2)
 for reasons why this may be useful.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 these system calls return a nonnegative integer that is a descriptor
 for the accepted socket.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.
-.SS "Error Handling"
+.SS Error handling
 Linux
 .BR accept ()
 (and
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@ and treat
 them like
 .B EAGAIN
 by retrying.
-In case of TCP/IP these are
+In the case of TCP/IP, these are
 .BR ENETDOWN ,
 .BR EPROTO ,
 .BR ENOPROTOOPT ,
@@ -289,7 +291,7 @@ The
 .BR accept4 ()
 system call is available starting with Linux 2.6.28;
 support in glibc is available starting with version 2.10.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR accept ():
 POSIX.1-2001,
 SVr4, 4.4BSD,
@@ -336,7 +338,7 @@ return a readability event because the connection might have been
 removed by an asynchronous network error or another thread before
 .BR accept ()
 is called.
-If this happens then the call will block waiting for the next
+If this happens, then the call will block waiting for the next
 connection to arrive.
 To ensure that
 .BR accept ()
@@ -376,10 +378,19 @@ stupid thing, so they silently just renamed their blunder)."
 .SH EXAMPLE
 See
 .BR bind (2).
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR bind (2),
 .BR connect (2),
 .BR listen (2),
 .BR select (2),
 .BR socket (2),
 .BR socket (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.