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diff --git a/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9 b/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9 index 213ebc44303..59af4709f7f 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/tvtohz.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: tvtohz.9,v 1.9 2015/06/11 16:04:55 mikeb Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: tvtohz.9,v 1.10 2019/01/17 23:01:26 tedu Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Marc Espie .\" All rights reserved. @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 11 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 17 2019 $ .Dt TVTOHZ 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -43,13 +43,14 @@ The .Fn tvtohz and .Fn tstohz -functions compute the number of -.Va hz -in the specified amount of time. +functions return the number of ticks in the specified amount of time. +If the return value would exceed the maximum value representable by an int, +it is capped at +.Dv INT_MAX . They are mainly used to translate a timeval or timespec, respectively, into a suitable argument for -.Xr timeout 9 . +.Xr tsleep 9 . .Sh CODE REFERENCES These functions are implemented in the file .Pa sys/kern/kern_clock.c . |