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diff --git a/man2/idle.2 b/man2/idle.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 689183025..000000000 --- a/man2/idle.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) -.\" Portions extracted from linux/mm/swap.c: -.\" Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Modified 21 Aug 1994 by Michael Chastain <mec@shell.portal.com>: -.\" Added text about calling restriction (new in Linux 1.1.20 I believe). -.\" N.B. calling "idle" from user process used to hang process! -.\" Modified Thu Oct 31 14:41:15 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -.\" " -.TH idle 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" -.SH NAME -idle \- make process 0 idle -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <unistd.h> -.PP -.B [[deprecated]] int idle(void); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR idle () -is an internal system call used during bootstrap. -It marks the process's pages as swappable, lowers its priority, -and enters the main scheduling loop. -.BR idle () -never returns. -.PP -Only process 0 may call -.BR idle (). -Any user process, even a process with superuser permission, -will receive -.BR EPERM . -.SH RETURN VALUE -.BR idle () -never returns for process 0, and always returns \-1 for a user process. -.SH ERRORS -.TP -.B EPERM -Always, for a user process. -.SH STANDARDS -Linux. -.SH HISTORY -Removed in Linux 2.3.13. |