mirror_iproute2/man/man8/tipc-socket.8
Richard Alpe dcd8d142d2 tipc: add man pages
This patch adds man pages for the TIPC tool. There is one main page
and one page for each top level sub-command. These pages mainly aims
to help a user of the tipc tool. In addition to this they describe
a bit about what TIPC is and some of its features as a protocol.

Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
2015-10-07 10:31:34 +01:00

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.TH TIPC-SOCKET 8 "02 Jun 2015" "iproute2" "Linux"
./ For consistency, please keep padding right aligned.
./ For example '.B "foo " bar' and not '.B foo " bar"'
.SH NAME
tipc-socket \- show TIPC socket (port) information
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ad l
.in +8
.ti -8
.B tipc socket list
.SH OPTIONS
Options (flags) that can be passed anywhere in the command chain.
.TP
.BR "\-h" , " --help"
Show help about last valid command. For example
.B tipc socket --help
will show socket help and
.B tipc --help
will show general help. The position of the option in the string is irrelevant.
.SH DESCRIPTION
A TIPC socket is represented by an unsigned integer.
.TP
.SS Bound state
A bound socket has a logical TIPC port name associated with it.
.TP
.SS Connected state
A connected socket is directly connected to another socket creating a point
to point connection between TIPC sockets. If the connection to X was made using
a logical port name Y that name will show up as
.BR "connected to " "X " "via " Y
.
.SH EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 if command was successful or a positive integer upon failure.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR tipc (8),
.BR tipc-bearer (8)
.BR tipc-link (8),
.BR tipc-media (8),
.BR tipc-nametable (8),
.BR tipc-node (8),
.br
.SH REPORTING BUGS
Report any bugs to the Network Developers mailing list
.B <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
where the development and maintenance is primarily done.
You do not have to be subscribed to the list to send a message there.
.SH AUTHOR
Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>