On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks Jeff. I councur (but it would have been good also to add me to the CC of that patch, so I could track the discussion). Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
