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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-27 13:50:53 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-05-27 13:50:53 +0000
commite9b086e3d6325075bce541945db3ee068335808f (patch)
treead7929735b18057120cff8a3de2d4c875be3c8ed /bin/sleep
parentae49b930ea594884d1e9833ec07a5340af17b573 (diff)
document SIGALRM, since it's handling is somewhat special, and use
a standard EXIT STATUS blurb now that we can; ok guenther sobrado millert
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/sleep')
-rw-r--r--bin/sleep/sleep.122
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sleep/sleep.1 b/bin/sleep/sleep.1
index e8042ce461e..71d8e7b9bd5 100644
--- a/bin/sleep/sleep.1
+++ b/bin/sleep/sleep.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sleep.1,v 1.20 2014/02/21 23:39:39 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sleep.1,v 1.21 2014/05/27 13:50:52 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: sleep.1,v 1.9 1995/07/25 19:37:43 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993, 1994
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)sleep.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 21 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 27 2014 $
.Dt SLEEP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -51,19 +51,13 @@ suspends execution for a minimum of the specified number of
This number must be positive and may contain a decimal fraction.
.Nm
is commonly used to schedule the execution of other commands (see below).
-.Sh EXIT STATUS
-The
-.Nm
-utility exits with one of the following values:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
-.It 0
-On successful completion, or if the signal
-.Dv SIGALRM
-was received.
-.It \*(Gt0
-An error occurred.
+.Sh ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
+.Bl -tag -width "SIGALRMXXX"
+.It Dv SIGALRM
+Terminate normally, with a zero exit status.
.El
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std sleep
.Sh EXAMPLES
Wait a half hour before running the script
.Pa command_file