From d85d894112f4eac57ecd5967ad362e409de21f57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cheloha <cheloha@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:11:54 +0000
Subject: DESCRIPTION: Be more direct about what delay(9) actually does.

While here, "delay" -> "interval", "busy wait" -> "busy-wait".

With input from jmc@.

"no objections" schwarze@, "reads ok" jmc@, ok ratchov@ kn@
---
 share/man/man9/delay.9 | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'share')

diff --git a/share/man/man9/delay.9 b/share/man/man9/delay.9
index e5cd7be0e2f..b54f33f1afd 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/delay.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/delay.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: delay.9,v 1.4 2007/09/14 16:16:08 mk Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: delay.9,v 1.5 2019/06/27 18:11:53 cheloha Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2006 David Gwynne <dlg@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -14,22 +14,22 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 27 2019 $
 .Dt DELAY 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm delay
-.Nd busy wait for an interval
+.Nd busy-wait for an interval
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In sys/param.h
 .Ft void
-.Fn delay "int delay"
+.Fn delay "int interval"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Fn delay
-is called in the kernel to busy wait for a period of time.
 The
-.Fa delay
-argument specifies the period of time to wait for, in microseconds.
+.Fn delay
+function busy-waits for at least
+.Fa interval
+microseconds.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr timeout 9 ,
 .Xr tsleep 9
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