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Subject: send(2) man page does not mention EHOSTDOWN
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>Number:         24410
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       send(2) man page does not mention EHOSTDOWN
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 17 07:40:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jan 17 21:03:30 GMT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jan 17 21:03:48 GMT 2001
>Originator:     Martin Horcicka
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

The send(2) manual page does not mention the EHOSTDOWN error which can be
errno set to when the destination host is on the same network and it is down
(i.e. ARP requests have timed out).

>How-To-Repeat:

man 2 send

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Ben Smithurst <csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, horcicka@vol.cz
Cc: csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk
Subject: Re: docs/24410: send(2) man page does not mention EHOSTDOWN
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:44:45 +0000

 Would an explanation like
 
      [EHOSTDOWN]        The remote host was down.
 
 be sufficient, or would something a bit more detailed be better?  The
 explanation for EHOSTUNREACH isn't very long though...
 
 -- 
 Ben Smithurst / csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk / ben@FreeBSD.org
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ben 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 17 21:03:30 GMT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24410 
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