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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-02-04 22:33:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2001-02-04 22:33:50 +0000 |
| commit | 1a724e3f3c1cb9472109291adee6cde2fcb8ff6c (patch) | |
| tree | 4104431e6ba1ef7eebd269210ad2dd9afc9848ea | |
| parent | 8cd0e5000d6a95628dd56214b1e80da0dfe44aff (diff) | |
Add RETURN VALUES section
Max alarm time is 100000000 seconds, not 2147483647 (as enforced by
itimerfix() in kern_time.c)
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 index 959036b5483..052e213c91a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: alarm.3,v 1.8 2000/12/24 00:30:46 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: alarm.3,v 1.9 2001/02/04 22:33:49 millert Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993, 1994 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ returns the amount of time left on the clock. The maximum number of .Ar seconds allowed -is 2147483647. +is 100000000. .Pp If an alarm has been set with .Fn alarm , @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ The request .Fn alarm "0" voids the current alarm. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +If the call succeeds, any time left remaining from a previous call is returned. +If an error occurs, the value \-1 is returned, and a more precise +error code is placed in the global variable +.Va errno . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr setitimer 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , |