Thread (76 messages) 76 messages, 3 authors, 2021-05-11

Re: [PATCH] epoll_wait.2: Move subsection to NOTES from BUGS

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-09 23:52:45

Hi Alex,

On 5/10/21 9:39 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
'C library/kernel differences' was added to BUGS incorrectly.
Fix it

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <redacted>
Applied. Thanks!

Cheers,

Michael
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---
 man2/epoll_wait.2 | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2
index f9b5749df..69c79d6ec 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -285,18 +285,6 @@ instance whose interest list is currently empty
 or removed from the interest in another thread).
 The call will block until some file descriptor is later added to the
 interest list (in another thread) and that file descriptor becomes ready.
-.SH BUGS
-In kernels before 2.6.37, a
-.I timeout
-value larger than approximately
-.I LONG_MAX / HZ
-milliseconds is treated as \-1 (i.e., infinity).
-Thus, for example, on a system where
-.I sizeof(long)
-is 4 and the kernel
-.I HZ
-value is 1000,
-this means that timeouts greater than 35.79 minutes are treated as infinity.
 .SS C library/kernel differences
 The raw
 .BR epoll_pwait ()
@@ -312,6 +300,18 @@ The glibc
 wrapper function specifies this argument as a fixed value
 (equal to
 .IR sizeof(sigset_t) ).
+.SH BUGS
+In kernels before 2.6.37, a
+.I timeout
+value larger than approximately
+.I LONG_MAX / HZ
+milliseconds is treated as \-1 (i.e., infinity).
+Thus, for example, on a system where
+.I sizeof(long)
+is 4 and the kernel
+.I HZ
+value is 1000,
+this means that timeouts greater than 35.79 minutes are treated as infinity.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR epoll_create (2),
 .BR epoll_ctl (2),

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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