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epoll_wait.2: NOTES: describe raw epoll_pwait() system call differences 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -226,6 +226,19 @@ is 4 and the kernel
.I HZ
value is 1000,
this means that timeouts greater than 35.79 minutes are treated as infinity.
.SS C library/kernel ABI differences
The raw
.BR epoll_pwait ()
system call has a sixth argument,
.IR "size_t sigsetsize" ,
which specifies the size in bytes of the
.IR sigmask
argument.
The glibc
.BR epoll_pwait ()
wrapper function specifies this argument as a fixed value
(equal to
.IR sizeof(sigset_t) ).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR epoll_create (2),
.BR epoll_ctl (2),