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authorkleink <kleink@NetBSD.org>2005-03-10 00:31:38 +0000
committerkleink <kleink@NetBSD.org>2005-03-10 00:31:38 +0000
commit7dfdae2368fa735a266365a5e490de3ff3a1fb39 (patch)
tree62b1e00da4da23ecaa4dc190052ee7d3f75b41c5 /lib/libc
parent6fe0a614b5897fea73757a488a22fc028d3aa49d (diff)
s/nil pointer/null pointer/
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/poll.210
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
index 33f1f2b5d5f..176c04dd409 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: poll.2,v 1.21 2005/03/10 00:29:37 kleink Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: poll.2,v 1.22 2005/03/10 00:31:38 kleink Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -160,22 +160,22 @@ will return without blocking.
.Pp
If
.Fa ts
-is a non-nil pointer, it references a timespec structure which specifies a
+is a non-null pointer, it references a timespec structure which specifies a
maximum interval to wait for any file descriptor to become ready.
If
.Fa ts
-is a nil pointer,
+is a null pointer,
.Fn pollts
blocks indefinitely.
If
.Fa ts
-is a non-nil pointer, referencing a zero-valued timespec structure, then
+is a non-null pointer, referencing a zero-valued timespec structure, then
.Fn pollts
will return without blocking.
.Pp
If
.Fa sigmask
-is a non-nil pointer, then the
+is a non-null pointer, then the
.Fn pollts
function shall replace the signal mask of the caller by the set of
signals pointed to by