accept(2): Update portability note for accept4().

The accept(2) man page warns that O_NONBLOCK and other properties on the
new socket may vary across implementations. However, this issue only
applies to accept() and not to accept4(). On the other hand, accept4()
is not commonly available yet.

Reported by:	pluknet
Reviewed by:	bjk
Approved by:	re (kib)
This commit is contained in:
Jilles Tjoelker 2013-10-01 21:17:18 +00:00
parent d6498b153e
commit 0f49c96cfc

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)accept.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd May 1, 2013
.Dd October 1, 2013
.Dt ACCEPT 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -155,13 +155,20 @@ For some applications, performance may be enhanced by using an
.Xr accept_filter 9
to pre-process incoming connections.
.Pp
Portable programs should not rely on the
When using
.Fn accept ,
portable programs should not rely on the
.Dv O_NONBLOCK
and
.Dv O_ASYNC
properties and the signal destination being inherited,
but should set them explicitly using
.Xr fcntl 2 .
.Xr fcntl 2 ;
.Fn accept4
sets these properties consistently,
but may not be fully portable across
.Ux
platforms.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
These calls return \-1 on error.
If they succeed, they return a non-negative