Fixed default socket path name "/var/run" to "/var/run/.dpdk" and
"$HOME" to "~/.dpdk".
Fixes: 278f945402c5 ("pdump: add new library for packet capture")
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst
b/doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst
index 580ffcb..0136781 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ the packet capture.
The packet capture framework, as part of its initialization, creates the
pthread and the server socket in
the pthread. The application that calls the framework initialization will have
the server socket created,
-either under the path that the application has passed or under the default
path i.e. either ``/var/run`` for
-root user or ``$HOME`` for non root user.
+either under the path that the application has passed or under the default
path i.e. either ``/var/run/.dpdk`` for
+root user or ``~/.dpdk`` for non root user.
Applications that request enabling or disabling of the packet capture will
have the client socket created either under
-the path that the application has passed or under the default path i.e. either
``/var/run/`` for root user or ``$HOME``
-for not root user to send the requests to the server.
-The server socket will listen for client requests for enabling or disabling
the packet capture.
+the path that the application has passed or under the default path i.e. either
``/var/run/.dpdk`` for root user or
+``~/.dpdk`` for not root user to send the requests to the server. The server
socket will listen for client requests for
+enabling or disabling the packet capture.
Implementation Details
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ server socket.
The library API ``rte_pdump_set_socket_dir()``, sets the given path as either
server socket path
or client socket path based on the ``type`` argument of the API.
-If the given path is ``NULL``, default path will be selected, i.e. either
``/var/run/`` for root user or ``$HOME``
+If the given path is ``NULL``, default path will be selected, i.e. either
``/var/run/.dpdk`` for root user or ``~/.dpdk``
for non root user. Clients also need to call this API to set their server
socket path if the server socket
path is different from default path.
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2.5.0
