netdev - Re: [PATCH] ss: fix help/man TCP-STATE description for listening

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:02:18 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ss: fix help/man TCP-STATE description for listening

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:47:51 +0200
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se> wrote:

> There's some misleading information in --help and ss(8) manpage about
> TCP-STATE named 'listen'.
> ss doesn't know such a state, but it knows 'listening' state.
> 
> $ ss -tua state listen
> ss: wrong state name: listen
> 
> $ ss -tua state listening
> [...]
> 
> Addresses: https://bugs.debian.org/872990
> Reported-by: Pavel Lyulchenko <p.lyulchenko@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>

Applied. Thanks