Subject: Re: Documentation for filters in ss

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:32:14 -0700

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:17:53 -0600
Thayne <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The man page for ss(8)  states:
> 
> > Please take a look at the official documentation for details regarding filters.  
> 
> However, I have been unable to find any documentation on the filters
> for ss, official or otherwise.
> 
> There was some documentation that was removed in commit
> d77ce080d33370d90de8b123cd143e9599dc1ca6
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/commit/?id=d77ce080d33370d90de8b123cd143e9599dc1ca6)
> which I presume is the official documentation referred to?
> 
> The man page should probably be updated to either document the filter
> syntax directly or point to where information about it can be found.

The old latex stuff was only in the source, distributions did not know
what to do with it, and it was never  updated.

Documentation belongs on the man page. Patches happily accepted.