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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-07-21 05:45:54 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-07-21 05:52:30 +0200
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sigwait.3: Reword "is delivered" to "becomes pending"
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man3/sigwait.39
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/sigwait.3 b/man3/sigwait.3
index 0c06526063..05c9452938 100644
--- a/man3/sigwait.3
+++ b/man3/sigwait.3
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
-.TH SIGWAIT 3 2010-09-10 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SIGWAIT 3 2012-07-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
sigwait \- wait for a signal
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR sigwait ()
-function suspends execution of the calling thread until the
-delivery of one of the signals specified in the signal set
-.IR set .
+function suspends execution of the calling thread until
+one of the signals specified in the signal set
+.IR set
+becomes pending.
The function accepts the signal
(removes it from the pending list of signals),
and returns the signal number in