From 8483a88c946fae77e6074302ebb1af25d8aa3b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:40:16 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] epoll_wait.2: Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/epoll_wait.2 | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2 index 9e37f9f0b..040aec250 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_wait.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" .\" 2007-04-30: mtk, Added description of epoll_pwait() .\" -.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2008-04-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2009-01-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME epoll_wait, epoll_pwait \- wait for an I/O event on an epoll file descriptor .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ The .BR epoll_wait () system call waits for events on the .B epoll -file descriptor -.I epfd -for a maximum time of +instance referred to by the file descriptor +.IR epfd . +The call waits for a maximum time of .I timeout milliseconds. The memory area pointed to by