I looked back through the kernel code, and the timeout was never updated in any case. I've submitted a patch upstream to change the comment above io_getevents. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/io_getevents.2 | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/io_getevents.2 b/man2/io_getevents.2 index 34ecd4a..72317c3 100644 --- a/man2/io_getevents.2 +++ b/man2/io_getevents.2 @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ specified by \fIctx_id\fP. The \fItimeout\fP argument specifies the amount of time to wait for events, where a NULL timeout waits until at least \fImin_nr\fP events have been seen. -Note that \fItimeout\fP is relative and will be updated if not NULL -and the operation blocks. +Note that \fItimeout\fP is relative. .SH RETURN VALUE On success, .BR io_getevents () -- 1.7.1 -- 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
