timer_settime.2: Small rewording around discussion of pointer arguments

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2012-10-02 07:28:14 +02:00
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@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ arms or disarms the timer identified by
.IR timerid .
The
.I new_value
argument is an
argument is pointer to an
.I itimerspec
structure that specifies the new initial value and
the new interval for the timer.
@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ clock have no effect on relative timers based on that clock.
If
.I old_value
is not NULL, then it returns the previous interval of the timer (in
is not NULL, then it points to a buffer
that is used to return the previous interval of the timer (in
.IR old_value->it_interval )
and the amount of time until the timer
would previously have next expired (in