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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-18 03:01:36 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-18 03:01:36 +0000
commitc2d5d31832de35b48a0e487f90b9a58abeb3a8ea (patch)
tree3dcc33b96ac33fca8fde9f5dff0db0a5afbb6ae4 /lib/libc/gen/sleep.3
parentb6a043747e2041e97decf4b4c5a3b51c3b40b722 (diff)
Repairs, mostly removing hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/sleep.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/sleep.39
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sleep.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sleep.3
index b4aea47d790..bd51f899a72 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/sleep.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/sleep.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sleep.3,v 1.7 1999/08/31 16:52:34 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sleep.3,v 1.8 2000/04/18 03:01:27 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ function suspends execution of the calling process until either the
number of seconds specified by
.Fa seconds
have elapsed or a signal is delivered to the calling process and its
-action is to invoke a signal-catching function or to terminate the
-process. The suspension time may be longer than requested due to the
+action is to invoke a signal-catching function or to terminate the process.
+The suspension time may be longer than requested due to the
scheduling of other activity by the system.
.Pp
This function is implemented using
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ interferes with interval timers anymore).
If the
.Fn sleep
function returns because the requested time has elapsed, the value
-returned will be zero. If the
+returned will be zero.
+If the
.Fn sleep
function returns due to the delivery of a signal, the value returned
will be the unslept amount (the request time minus the time actually