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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 05:12:14 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-10-18 05:12:14 +0000
commitf29d8bd9c9c901b81d8fadc341786c43528e63c1 (patch)
treea5fc4e4696d058bee8f5a8c5498044c06a963bda /lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
parent906e3d9014b754421b64647e705b3cca2e9a7c01 (diff)
Another round of man page cleanup, this time to remove more hard sentence
breaks and getting rid of short lines, making these files easier to work with.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/adjtime.222
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2 b/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
index 592292bc308..e6e4f3dc1c1 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.9 2000/04/15 11:46:02 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.10 2000/10/18 05:12:08 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.5 1995/10/12 15:40:44 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -48,21 +48,17 @@
.Fn adjtime
makes small adjustments to the system time, as returned by
.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
-advancing or retarding it
-by the time specified by the timeval
+advancing or retarding it by the time specified by the timeval
.Fa delta .
If
.Fa delta
-is negative, the clock is
-slowed down by incrementing it more slowly than normal until
-the correction is complete.
+is negative, the clock is slowed down by incrementing it more slowly
+than normal until the correction is complete.
If
.Fa delta
-is positive, a larger increment than normal
-is used.
+is positive, a larger increment than normal is used.
The skew used to perform the correction is generally a fraction of one percent.
-Thus, the time is always
-a monotonically increasing function.
+Thus, the time is always a monotonically increasing function.
A time correction from an earlier call to
.Fn adjtime
may not be finished when
@@ -70,10 +66,8 @@ may not be finished when
is called again.
If
.Fa olddelta
-is non-null,
-the structure pointed to will contain, upon return, the
-number of microseconds still to be corrected
-from the earlier call.
+is non-null, the structure pointed to will contain, upon return, the
+number of microseconds still to be corrected from the earlier call.
.Pp
This call may be used by time servers that synchronize the clocks
of computers in a local area network.