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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/read.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/read.2 b/lib/libc/sys/read.2 index 54a009af257..335500bcad7 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/read.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/read.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: read.2,v 1.25 2003/10/21 20:00:17 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: read.2,v 1.26 2006/10/11 09:58:31 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: read.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:35:47 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 @@ -158,8 +158,10 @@ or the process is a member of a background process attempting to read from its controlling terminal, the process is ignoring or blocking the SIGTTIN signal or the process group is orphaned. .It Bq Er EINTR -A read from a slow device was interrupted before -any data arrived by the delivery of a signal. +A read from a slow device +(i.e. one that might block for an arbitrary amount of time) +was interrupted by the delivery of a signal +before any data arrived. .It Bq Er EINVAL The pointer associated with .Fa d |