This is shorter, clearly separates the events from the flags, and more consistent (cf. EPOLLEXCLUSIVE which has a different message than the rest) Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/epoll_ctl.2 | 33 +++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 b/man2/epoll_ctl.2 index ec31cac72..c9f9649a5 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_ctl.2 @@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ Note that when reading from a channel such as a pipe or a stream socket, this event merely indicates that the peer closed its end of the channel. Subsequent reads from the channel will return 0 (end of file) only after all outstanding data in the channel has been consumed. +.PP +And one of the following input flags, which are never returned by +.BR epoll_wait (2): .TP .B EPOLLET Requests edge-triggered notification for the associated file descriptor. @@ -166,13 +169,6 @@ See .BR epoll (7) for more detailed information about edge-triggered and level-triggered notification. -.IP -This flag is an input flag for the -.I event.events -field when calling -.BR epoll_ctl (); -it is never returned by -.BR epoll_wait (2). .TP .BR EPOLLONESHOT " (since Linux 2.6.2)" Requests one-shot notification for the associated file descriptor. @@ -187,13 +183,6 @@ The user must call with .B EPOLL_CTL_MOD to rearm the file descriptor with a new event mask. -.IP -This flag is an input flag for the -.I event.events -field when calling -.BR epoll_ctl (); -it is never returned by -.BR epoll_wait (2). .TP .BR EPOLLWAKEUP " (since Linux 3.5)" .\" commit 4d7e30d98939a0340022ccd49325a3d70f7e0238 @@ -222,13 +211,6 @@ or the clearing of for the event file descriptor with .BR EPOLL_CTL_MOD . See also BUGS. -.IP -This flag is an input flag for the -.I event.events -field when calling -.BR epoll_ctl (); -it is never returned by -.BR epoll_wait (2). .TP .BR EPOLLEXCLUSIVE " (since Linux 4.5)" Sets an exclusive wakeup mode for the epoll file descriptor that is being @@ -299,15 +281,6 @@ and specifies the target file descriptor as an epoll instance will likewise fail. The error in all of these cases is .BR EINVAL . -.IP -The -.BR EPOLLEXCLUSIVE -flag is an input flag for the -.I event.events -field when calling -.BR epoll_ctl (); -it is never returned by -.BR epoll_wait (2). .SH RETURN VALUE When successful, .BR epoll_ctl () -- 2.30.2
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