From 991c24c8815539bb08cc6545e725adb706650b53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 21:02:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] epoll_wait.2: Clarify semantics of returned 'data' field

The returned 'data' is the 'data' most recently set via
epoll_ctl().

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/epoll_wait.2 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2
index f588d2d05..132e429af 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -103,9 +103,11 @@ struct epoll_event {
 
 The
 .I data
-field of each returned structure contains the same data the user set via
+field of each returned structure contains the same data as was specified
+in the most recent call to
 .BR epoll_ctl (2)
-.RB ( EPOLL_CTL_ADD ", " EPOLL_CTL_MOD ).
+.RB ( EPOLL_CTL_ADD ", " EPOLL_CTL_MOD )
+for the corresponding open file description.
 The
 .I events
 field contains the returned event bit field.