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Diffstat (limited to 'src/socket.c')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/socket.c b/src/socket.c index 9250c27..6ca3d3e 100644 --- a/src/socket.c +++ b/src/socket.c @@ -28,24 +28,24 @@ "Simplify, simplify" -- Henry David Thoureau. Walden (1854) \endverbatim * - * The acronim libmnl stands for LIBrary Minimalistic NetLink. + * The acronym libmnl stands for LIBrary Minimalistic NetLink. * * (temporary) libmnl homepage is: * http://1984.lsi.us.es/projects/libmnl/ * * \section features Main Features - * - Small: the shared library requires around 30KB in a x86-based computer. + * - Small: the shared library requires around 30KB for an x86-based computer. * - Simple: this library avoids complex abstractions that tend to hide Netlink * details. It avoids elaborated object-oriented infrastructure and complex * callback-based workflow. * - Easy to use: the library simplifies the work for Netlink-wise developers. * It provides functions to make socket handling, message building, - * validating, parsing, and sequence tracking, easier. + * validating, parsing and sequence tracking, easier. * - Easy to re-use: you can use this library to build your own abstraction * layer upon this library, if you want to provide another library that * hides Netlink details to your users. * - Decoupling: the interdependency of the main bricks that compose this - * library is reduced, ie. the library provides many helpers but the + * library is reduced, i.e. the library provides many helpers, but the * programmer is not forced to use them. * * \section Dependencies @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ * http://git.netfilter.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libmnl.git;a=summary * * \section using Using libmnl - * You can access several examples files under examples/ in the libmnl source + * You can access several example files under examples/ in the libmnl source * code tree. */ @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ unsigned int mnl_socket_get_portid(const struct mnl_socket *nl) /** * mnl_socket_open - open a netlink socket - * \param unit the netlink socket bus ID (see NETLINK_* constants) + * \param bus the netlink socket bus ID (see NETLINK_* constants) * * On error, it returns -1 and errno is appropriately set. Otherwise, it * returns a valid pointer to the mnl_socket structure. @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ int mnl_socket_bind(struct mnl_socket *nl, int groups, int pid) * mnl_socket_sendto - send a netlink message of a certain size * \param nl netlink socket obtained via mnl_socket_open() * \param buf buffer containing the netlink message to be sent - * \param bufsiz number of bytes in the buffer that you want to send + * \param len number of bytes in the buffer that you want to send * * On error, it returns -1 and errno is appropriately set. Otherwise, it * returns the number of bytes sent. @@ -186,8 +186,8 @@ int mnl_socket_sendto(const struct mnl_socket *nl, const void *buf, size_t len) * * On error, it returns -1 and errno is appropriately set. If errno is set * to ENOSPC, it means that the buffer that you have passed to store the - * netlink message is too small so you have received a truncated message. - * To avoid this you have to allocate a buffer of MNL_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE + * netlink message is too small, so you have received a truncated message. + * To avoid this, you have to allocate a buffer of MNL_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE * (which is 8KB, see linux/netlink.h for more information). Using this * buffer size ensures that your buffer is big enough to store the netlink * message without truncating it. |