netdev - Re: [PATCH] Update function names in /proc/net/tcp documentation

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Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:43:00 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update function names in /proc/net/tcp documentation

Hi Rick,

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:13:32 -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Update function name references to match the current code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt |    4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.23.orig/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt	2007-02-04 19:44:54.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.23/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt	2007-10-12 22:50:15.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
> >  This document describes the interfaces /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6.
> >  
> >  These /proc interfaces provide information about currently active TCP 
> > -connections, and are implemented by tcp_get_info() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and
> > -tcp6_get_info() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively.
> > +connections, and are implemented by tcp4_seq_show() in net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> > +and tcp6_seq_show() in net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c, respectively.
> >  
> >  It will first list all listening TCP sockets, and next list all established
> >  TCP connections. A typical entry of /proc/net/tcp would look like this (split 
> 
> /proc/net/[tcp|tcp6] are deprecated now right?  Perhaps there should be 
> something to that effect added to the txt.

I didn't know that, sorry. What is the new interface to access the
TCP information?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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