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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/poll.2 | 10 |
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diff --git a/man2/poll.2 b/man2/poll.2 index 79be7c47..b0159d20 100644 --- a/man2/poll.2 +++ b/man2/poll.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" 2006-07-01, mtk, Added POLLRDHUP + various other wording and .\" formatting changes. .\" -.TH POLL 2 2013-07-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH POLL 2 2013-09-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME poll, ppoll \- wait for some event on a file descriptor .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ blocks until one of the events occurs. The .I timeout -argument specifies the minimum number of milliseconds that +argument specifies the number of milliseconds that .BR poll () -will block. -(This interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity, +should block waiting for a file descriptor to become ready. +This interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity, and kernel scheduling delays mean that the blocking interval -may overrun by a small amount.) +may overrun by a small amount. Specifying a negative value in .I timeout means an infinite timeout. |