From a04e44bd3a51b57c72099eddac4eff3be4395016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 07:03:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] clock_getres.2: Clarify that CLOCK_MONOTONIC is system-wide Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/clock_getres.2 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man2/clock_getres.2 b/man2/clock_getres.2 index 9d379f5ca..7e0270052 100644 --- a/man2/clock_getres.2 +++ b/man2/clock_getres.2 @@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ does. The acronym TAI refers to International Atomic Time. .TP .B CLOCK_MONOTONIC -A nonsettable clock that represents monotonic time since\(emas described +A nonsettable system-wide clock that +represents monotonic time since\(emas described by POSIX\(em"some unspecified point in the past". On Linux, that point corresponds to the number of seconds that the system has been running since it was booted.