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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-05-29 22:38:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-05-29 22:38:38 +0000 |
| commit | 433594a7d76d560485c3bdb52ab87c64b008e168 (patch) | |
| tree | 5345f18b21ad05187d084366eb8668da984821da /lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 | |
| parent | e995764d51674c3bfd0717fdfbf24af85952e88e (diff) | |
repairs; go back over some old files, because we should properly distinguish
between NUL and NULL, i.e., don't use the .Dv (defined variable) macro when
referring to an ASCII NUL
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 b/lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 index 5c253c33981..7affd255ae8 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ualarm.3,v 1.9 1999/05/23 14:11:00 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ualarm.3,v 1.10 1999/05/29 22:38:36 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The .Fn ualarm function waits a count of -.Ar microseconds +.Fa microseconds before asserting the terminating signal .Dv SIGALRM . System activity or time used in processing the call may cause a slight @@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ to the process every .Fa interval microseconds after the timer expires (e.g. after .Fa microseconds -microseconds have passed). +number of microseconds have passed). .Sh RETURN VALUES When the signal has successfully been caught, .Fn ualarm returns the amount of time left on the clock. -The maximum number of -.Ar microseconds +The maximum value for +.Fa microseconds allowed is 2147483647. .Sh SEE ALSO |