From: Jean Delvare Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:58:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [TCP]: Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~1277^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d603d0ab863245050025a79a1f14ff84f2222f09;p=linux.git [TCP]: Update the /proc/net/tcp documentation * Say that this interface is deprecated. * Update function name references to match the current code. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt index 5e21f7cb6383..4a79209e77a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ This document describes the interfaces /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6. +Note that these interfaces are deprecated in favor of tcp_diag. 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