From 3685fa98f3b46406e16379305ec0373ca463e104 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?David=20Pr=C3=A9vot?= Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 06:52:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] time.7: spfix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/time.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/time.7 b/man7/time.7 index 5d8fedc11..03a00ea35 100644 --- a/man7/time.7 +++ b/man7/time.7 @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ value for a thread. The timer slack is the length of time by which the kernel may delay the wake-up of certain system calls that block with a timeout. -Permitting this delay allows the kernel to coallesce wake-up events, +Permitting this delay allows the kernel to coalesce wake-up events, thus possibly reducing the number of system wake-ups and saving power. For more details, see the description of .B PR_SET_TIMERSLACK