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man: ip-address: document 15-char limit for LABEL
authorLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 10:31:16 +0000 (11:31 +0100)
committerStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 17:43:47 +0000 (09:43 -0800)
commitfe2ab15d2c9542ffd86de1d6ebe1ea5163489aa8
treedaa629f308b7c1608c4b4784535a2402a7725463
parentbe78fade553b727a7c5bdb17e140dbc161fad85a
man: ip-address: document 15-char limit for LABEL

Trying to set a label longer than 15 characters returns an error:
 RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range

Document the limit in the manpage.

Originally reported as a Debian bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=661886

Reported-by: Gabor Kiss <kissg@ssg.ki.iif.hu>
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
man/man8/ip-address.8.in