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Diffstat (limited to 'man2/alarm.2')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/man2/alarm.2 b/man2/alarm.2 index 4a4f0fd37..79326a35c 100644 --- a/man2/alarm.2 +++ b/man2/alarm.2 @@ -46,36 +46,36 @@ POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. .SH NOTES .BR alarm () and -.BR setitimer (2) +.MR setitimer 2 share the same timer; calls to one will interfere with use of the other. .P Alarms created by .BR alarm () are preserved across -.BR execve (2) +.MR execve 2 and are not inherited by children created via -.BR fork (2). +.MR fork 2 . .P -.BR sleep (3) +.MR sleep 3 may be implemented using .BR SIGALRM ; mixing calls to .BR alarm () and -.BR sleep (3) +.MR sleep 3 is a bad idea. .P Scheduling delays can, as ever, cause the execution of the process to be delayed by an arbitrary amount of time. .SH SEE ALSO -.BR gettimeofday (2), -.BR pause (2), -.BR select (2), -.BR setitimer (2), -.BR sigaction (2), -.BR signal (2), -.BR timer_create (2), -.BR timerfd_create (2), -.BR sleep (3), -.BR time (7) +.MR gettimeofday 2 , +.MR pause 2 , +.MR select 2 , +.MR setitimer 2 , +.MR sigaction 2 , +.MR signal 2 , +.MR timer_create 2 , +.MR timerfd_create 2 , +.MR sleep 3 , +.MR time 7 |