From 736552001db18606a990c67aa26053afd3ae57b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 08:14:41 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] semop.2: Clarify that 'timeout' of semtimedop() is a
 *minimum* interval

Make it clear that 'timeout' interval will be rounded up to the
system clock granularity, and may overrun because of kernel
scheduling delays.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/semop.2 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/semop.2 b/man2/semop.2
index 245465c4c..b3b1bfc91 100644
--- a/man2/semop.2
+++ b/man2/semop.2
@@ -290,6 +290,9 @@ time specified by the
 structure whose address is passed in the
 .I timeout
 argument.
+(This sleep interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
+and kernel scheduling delays mean that the interval
+may overrun by a small amount.)
 If the specified time limit has been reached,
 .BR semtimedop ()
 fails with