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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-09-04 10:32:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-09-04 10:39:34 +0200 |
| commit | 072c0d379ecc1d7d06057ecfb8861f4d57cb484c (patch) | |
| tree | 6ffcc0bb877de2d7892556b3b4ac6e94d5b1b537 | |
| parent | 0d9101c43871b14e1a538bfc808e8e75bc1d23ab (diff) | |
sigwaitinfo.2: Clarify wording of 'timeout' as a "minimum" interval
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/sigwaitinfo.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/sigwaitinfo.2 b/man2/sigwaitinfo.2 index c561c5f3..c89903b8 100644 --- a/man2/sigwaitinfo.2 +++ b/man2/sigwaitinfo.2 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH SIGWAITINFO 2 2012-07-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SIGWAITINFO 2 2013-09-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME sigwaitinfo, sigtimedwait \- synchronously wait for queued signals .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ operates in exactly the same way as .BR sigwaitinfo () except that it has an additional argument, .IR timeout , -which specifies a minimum interval for which +which specifies the interval for which the thread is suspended waiting for a signal. (This interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity, and kernel scheduling delays mean that the interval |