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authorjruoho <jruoho@NetBSD.org>2010-05-19 06:44:51 +0000
committerjruoho <jruoho@NetBSD.org>2010-05-19 06:44:51 +0000
commit2096402883e37feba5bc41482d64bcd3e45a9068 (patch)
treea8b880aec2a761a3eb441ed09783ee723ed0a784 /lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2
parent2e96a91ae55d774bda49c0da7f1cf7f67fad2a4a (diff)
Refer to sigevent(3).
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2 b/lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2
index de11be740a1..21cbd66536a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: timer_create.2,v 1.10 2010/03/22 19:30:55 joerg Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: timer_create.2,v 1.11 2010/05/19 06:44:51 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd September 13, 2003
+.Dd May 19, 2010
.Dt TIMER_CREATE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -60,24 +60,25 @@ The timer is created in a disarmed state.
.Pp
An optional
.Pq non- Ns Dv NULL
-sigevent argument can be specified by the
+.Em struct sigevent
+argument can be specified by the
.Ar evp
argument.
If the
.Ar evp
argument is
.Dv NULL ,
-then it defaults to
-.Fa sigev_notify
-set to
+then
+.Fa evp-\*[Gt]sigev_notify
+defaults to
.Dv SIGEV_SIGNAL
and
-.Fa sigev_value
-set to
+.Fa evp-\*[Gt]sigev_value
+is set to
.Ar timerid .
-See
-.Xr siginfo 2
-for accessing those values from a signal handler.
+Refer to
+.Xr sigevent 3
+for more details.
.Sh NOTES
Timers are not inherited after a
.Xr fork 2