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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-04 18:47:34 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-06-04 18:47:34 +0000
commit6dc76771d7db62df59f4974ea3849648a9678b55 (patch)
tree1ac8eaad593d99db2772397df7d5f277ade7631e /lib/libc/sys
parent42e4130d0a6fcb41516f4c08ada976c9427f2112 (diff)
Allow any user to request the current adjustment; ok henning@ deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/adjtime.29
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2 b/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
index a2c953bb3a9..a214c30796f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/adjtime.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.13 2003/06/02 20:18:38 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.14 2006/06/04 18:47:33 otto Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: adjtime.2,v 1.5 1995/10/12 15:40:44 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ may not be finished when
.Fn adjtime
is called again.
If
+.Fa delta
+is null, no adjustment is done.
+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.
@@ -70,9 +73,9 @@ of computers in a local area network.
Such time servers would slow down the clocks of some machines
and speed up the clocks of others to bring them to the average network time.
.Pp
-The call
+Only the superuser may adjust the time using the
.Fn adjtime
-is restricted to the superuser.
+function.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
A return value of 0 indicates that the call succeeded.
A return value of \-1 indicates that an error occurred, and in this