Use a single-font-change macro for a single argument. The output from "nroff" and "groff" is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> --- man2/nanosleep.2 | 10 +++++----- man2/nice.2 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/nanosleep.2 b/man2/nanosleep.2 index 0de711643..9809e2c0d 100644 --- a/man2/nanosleep.2 +++ b/man2/nanosleep.2 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 199309L .BR nanosleep () suspends the execution of the calling thread until either at least the time specified in -.IR *req +.I *req has elapsed, or the delivery of a signal that triggers the invocation of a handler in the calling thread or that terminates the process. @@ -199,18 +199,18 @@ If a program that catches signals and uses receives signals at a very high rate, then scheduling delays and rounding errors in the kernel's calculation of the sleep interval and the returned -.IR remain +.I remain value mean that the -.IR remain +.I remain value may steadily -.IR increase +.I increase on successive restarts of the .BR nanosleep () call. To avoid such problems, use .BR clock_nanosleep (2) with the -.BR TIMER_ABSTIME +.B TIMER_ABSTIME flag to sleep to an absolute deadline. .PP In Linux 2.4, if diff --git a/man2/nice.2 b/man2/nice.2 index 317d39c06..5a2a34cc9 100644 --- a/man2/nice.2 +++ b/man2/nice.2 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Traditionally, only a privileged process could lower the nice value (i.e., set a higher priority). However, since Linux 2.6.12, an unprivileged process can decrease the nice value of a target process that has a suitable -.BR RLIMIT_NICE +.B RLIMIT_NICE soft limit; see .BR getrlimit (2) for details. -- 2.20.1 -- Bjarni I. Gislason
