From d82b435b70dac46aeeef6039fb86f984afde7fe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:47:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] alarm.2: Correct the description of behavior when 'seconds'
 is 0

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

diff --git a/man2/alarm.2 b/man2/alarm.2
index a95b5a820..736cd90f7 100644
--- a/man2/alarm.2
+++ b/man2/alarm.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sun Jul 21 21:25:26 1996 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 .\" Modified Wed Nov  6 03:46:05 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
 .\"
-.TH ALARM 2 2008-06-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ALARM 2 2013-04-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 alarm \- set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ seconds.
 
 If
 .I seconds
-is zero, no new
-.BR alarm ()
-is scheduled.
+is zero, any pending alarm is cancelled.
 
 In any event any previously set
 .BR alarm ()