From b7377ede18c5c2ac0927cedcef82e2ad6a35ca9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nanahi <130121847+na-na-hi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:33:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] DOCS/man/options: document @ syntax for --input-ipc-server

---
 DOCS/man/options.rst | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/DOCS/man/options.rst b/DOCS/man/options.rst
index fbf98146c7..b7286b777b 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/options.rst
+++ b/DOCS/man/options.rst
@@ -4487,8 +4487,11 @@ Input
 ``--input-ipc-server=<filename>``
     Enable the IPC support and create the listening socket at the given path.
 
-    On Linux and Unix, the given path is a regular filesystem path. On Windows,
-    named pipes are used, so the path refers to the pipe namespace
+    On Linux and Unix, if the first character of the path is ``@``, then it
+    is internally replaced with a null character, which represents an abstract
+    socket address on Linux, but can have unspecified behavior on other UNIX
+    platforms. Otherwise, the given path is a regular filesystem path.
+    On Windows, named pipes are used, so the path refers to the pipe namespace
     (``\\.\pipe\<name>``). If the ``\\.\pipe\`` prefix is missing, mpv will add
     it automatically before creating the pipe, so
     ``--input-ipc-server=/tmp/mpv-socket`` and