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core: introduce new RuntimeDirectory= and RuntimeDirectoryMode= unit settings
[elogind.git] / man / systemd.socket.xml
index f495fe3666117e137c66139a5f1440b3db6d81d6..d645de45e10ae074a1c64412c9c29450d045edd1 100644 (file)
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 for more information about .service files). The name
                 of the .service unit is by default the same as the
-                name of the .socket unit, but can be altered with
+                name of the .socket unit, but can be altered with the
                 <option>Service=</option> option described below.
-                Depending on the setting of <option>Accept=</option>
+                Depending on the setting of the <option>Accept=</option>
                 option described below, this .service unit must either
                 be named like the .socket unit, but with the suffix
                 replaced, unless overridden with
                 <para>Socket units may be used to implement on-demand
                 starting of services, as well as parallelized starting
                 of services. See the blog stories linked at the end
-                for introduction.</para>
+                for an introduction.</para>
 
                 <para>Note that the daemon software configured for
                 socket activation with socket units needs to be able
                                 <term><varname>ReceiveBuffer=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>SendBuffer=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Takes an integer
-                                argument controlling the receive
-                                or send buffer sizes of this
-                                socket, respectively. This controls the SO_RCVBUF
-                                and SO_SNDBUF socket options (see
+                                argument controlling the receive or
+                                send buffer sizes of this socket,
+                                respectively. This controls the
+                                SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF socket options
+                                (see
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>socket</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                                for details.).</para></listitem>
+                                for details.). The usual suffixes K,
+                                M, G are supported and are understood
+                                to the base of 1024.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>PipeSize=</varname></term>
-                                <listitem><para>Takes an integer
-                                value. Controls the pipe buffer size
+                                <listitem><para>Takes an size in
+                                bytes. Controls the pipe buffer size
                                 of FIFOs configured in this socket
                                 unit. See
                                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fcntl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                                for details.</para></listitem>
+                                for details. The usual suffixes K, M,
+                                G are supported and are understood to
+                                the base of 1024.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>