On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:40 AM, bill o gallmeister <bog.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Petre Mierlutiu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the sleep(3) manpage states, under DESCRIPTION, that "sleep() makes the calling process sleep [...]". I believe this not to be true and the appropriate text would be: "sleep() makes the calling thread sleep [...]". >> >> I think in the past Linux did implement it so it would block the process, I am not sure. >> Anyway, sleep is currently implemented using nanosleep() and a simple threaded program can be written to prove sleep only sleeps the calling thread. >> >> Manpages version: 3.21 >> Distribution: ubuntu 9.10 >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Petre Mierlutiu-- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > > Signed-off-by: Bill O. Gallmeister <bog.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks Bill. Applied for 3.24. Cheers, Michael > --- > man3/sleep.3 | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man3/sleep.3 b/man3/sleep.3 > index 900b7fc..41575b7 100644 > --- a/man3/sleep.3 > +++ b/man3/sleep.3 > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ sleep \- Sleep for the specified number of seconds > .fi > .SH DESCRIPTION > .BR sleep () > -makes the calling process sleep until > +makes the calling thread sleep until > .I seconds > seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not ignored. > .SH "RETURN VALUE" > @@ -58,5 +58,6 @@ from a signal handler or modifying the handling of > while sleeping will cause undefined results. > .SH "SEE ALSO" > .BR alarm (2), > +.BR nanosleep (2), > .BR signal (2), > .BR signal (7) > -- > 1.6.0.6 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
