Hello Matthew, On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 01:00, Matthew Leeds <matthew.leeds@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Leeds <matthew.leeds@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/timerfd_create.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/timerfd_create.2 b/man2/timerfd_create.2 > index ac8940209..b986d2d14 100644 > --- a/man2/timerfd_create.2 > +++ b/man2/timerfd_create.2 > @@ -113,21 +113,21 @@ The current value of each of these clocks can be > retrieved using > .BR clock_gettime (2). > .PP > Starting with Linux 2.6.27, the following values may be bitwise ORed in > .IR flags > to change the behavior of > .BR timerfd_create (): > .TP 14 > .B TFD_NONBLOCK > Set the > .BR O_NONBLOCK > -file status flag on the new open file description. > +file status flag on the new open file descriptor. > Using this flag saves extra calls to > .BR fcntl (2) > to achieve the same result. > .TP > .B TFD_CLOEXEC > Set the close-on-exec > .RB ( FD_CLOEXEC ) > flag on the new file descriptor. > See the description of the > .B O_CLOEXEC > -- > 2.11.0 This patch isn't correct, but I applied the patch below which may clarify things a little for you and other readers. Thanks, Michael diff --git a/man2/timerfd_create.2 b/man2/timerfd_create.2 index ac8940209..b4e3672fb 100644 --- a/man2/timerfd_create.2 +++ b/man2/timerfd_create.2 @@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ to change the behavior of .B TFD_NONBLOCK Set the .BR O_NONBLOCK -file status flag on the new open file description. +file status flag on the open file description (see +.BR open (2)) +referred to by the new file descriptor. Using this flag saves extra calls to .BR fcntl (2) to achieve the same result. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
