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Bug 804003

Summary: Undocumented socket options for multicast/igmp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Radek Pazdera <rpazdera>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.2CC: isenfeld, mzywusko, ovasik
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ManPageChange
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Doc Text:
Cause: undocumented socket options on the ip(7) manual page Consequence: incomplete documentation Fix: document all socket options on the ip(7) manual page Result: complete documentation
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 10:45:44 UTC Type: ---
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Description Radek Pazdera 2012-03-16 09:40:52 UTC
Description of problem:
Substantial part of kernel multicast/igmp interface is not documented in the relevant manpages (man 7 ip)[1]. It concerns the following socket options:

IP_MSFILTER
IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_DROP_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_BLOCK_SOURCE
IP_UNBLOCK_SOURCE
IP_MULTICAST_ALL
MCAST_MSFILTER
MCAST_JOIN_GROUP
MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP
MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP
MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP
MCAST_BLOCK_SOURCE
MCAST_UNBLOCK_SOURCE

[1] http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/ip.7.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux man-pages 3.22 (2009-02-28)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man 7 ip

Additional info:
Someone probably tried to document IP_MULTICAST_ALL[2].

[2] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/28902/

Comment 3 Peter Schiffer 2012-09-25 12:37:37 UTC
Socket options:

MCAST_MSFILTER
MCAST_JOIN_GROUP
MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP
MCAST_JOIN_SOURCE_GROUP
MCAST_LEAVE_SOURCE_GROUP
MCAST_BLOCK_SOURCE
MCAST_UNBLOCK_SOURCE

are not relevant for this bug, so they won't be documented in the ip(7) man page.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 10:45:44 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0447.html