Bug 624399

Summary:	rresvport man entry misleading
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component:	man-pages	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	jakub, varekova
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Description JW 2010-08-16 10:19:34 UTC

Description of problem:
The man entry for rresvport states: "The rresvport() function is used to obtain a socket with a privileged address bound to it." Then it continues to state: "Privileged Internet ports are those in the range 0 to 1023." All of which is true. But in actual fact the notes fail to mention that rresvport() returns a port number in the range 512 through 1023 only.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.11.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man rresvport

  
Actual results:
See description


Expected results:
It should instead state: "The rresvport() function is used to obtain a socket with its port number bound to an available value between 512 and 1023 inclusive, being a subset of the privileged port range (0 through 1023).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2010-09-08 13:21:34 UTC

Thanks fixed in man-pages-3.26-1.