alarm.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2017-08-15 08:56:39 +02:00
parent 8c1cb77bee
commit 415573e691
1 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ alarm \- set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
.sp
.PP
.BI "unsigned int alarm(unsigned int " seconds );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ arranges for a
signal to be delivered to the calling process in
.I seconds
seconds.
.PP
If
.I seconds
is zero, any pending alarm is canceled.
.PP
In any event any previously set
.BR alarm ()
is canceled.
@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ and
.BR setitimer (2)
share the same timer; calls to one will interfere with use of the
other.
.PP
Alarms created by
.BR alarm ()
are preserved across
@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ mixing calls to
and
.BR sleep (3)
is a bad idea.
.PP
Scheduling delays can, as ever, cause the execution of the process to
be delayed by an arbitrary amount of time.
.SH SEE ALSO