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| author | kleink <kleink@NetBSD.org> | 2003-09-13 23:00:38 +0000 |
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| committer | kleink <kleink@NetBSD.org> | 2003-09-13 23:00:38 +0000 |
| commit | b9f1052a4dc0cb0189cf592deaa8432c618d2b37 (patch) | |
| tree | 0abdab4b731a658c409434f9c5ed8f3f6d4f5807 /lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 | |
| parent | bb2796d21539041f33f10d423e926b0dc7ab3918 (diff) | |
Fix some typos, attempt some markup normalization, align wording a little
more with other manual pages.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 b/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 index c67f453a0b6..3793fc08e55 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/timer_settime.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: timer_settime.2,v 1.2 2003/09/13 22:31:04 kleink Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: timer_settime.2,v 1.3 2003/09/13 23:00:38 kleink Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2003 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn timer_settime -sets the next expiration time of the timer who's id is specified by +sets the next expiration time of the timer with id .Ar timerid to the .Fa it_value @@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ the .Ar tim argument from the time the call to .Fn timer_settime -was made. If the +was made. +If the .Ar flags argument is set to .Dv TIMER_ABSTIME @@ -103,8 +104,8 @@ argument. Only one notification event (signal) can be pending for a given timer and process. If a timer expires while the signal is still queued for delivery, then -the overrun counter for that timer is increased. The counter can store -values up to +the overrun counter for that timer is increased. +The counter can store values up to .Dv DELAYTIMER_MAX . When the signal is finally delivered to the process, then the .Fn timer_getoverrun @@ -127,16 +128,16 @@ argment of are subject to the above rounding effect and might not exactly match the requested values by the user. .Sh RETURN VALUES -The +If successful, the .Fn timer_gettime and .Fn timer_settime -functions return 0 on success or -1 on failure with errno set to indicate the -error. -The +functions return 0, and the .Fn timer_getoverrun -returns the expiration overrun count for the specified timer when it succeeds, -or -1 with errno set to indicated the error. +function returns the expiration overrun count for the specified timer. +Otherwise, the functions return \-1, and set +.Dv errno +to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn timer_gettime , @@ -146,9 +147,9 @@ and functions will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL -The +The argument .Ar timerid -argument does not correspond to a valid timer id as returned by +does not correspond to a valid timer id as returned by .Fn timer_create or that timer id has been deleted by .Fn timer_delete . |
