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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-09-23 22:07:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-10 12:24:28 +0200 |
| commit | 57a436eb4c44e157761507d7c5953ba47602dc4b (patch) | |
| tree | 13656f9a6a757d95f47254ac23e6bf0635e7895b | |
| parent | 4e547536bb028fb56207bf77b3470aea0345bd08 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-57a436eb4c44e157761507d7c5953ba47602dc4b.tar.gz | |
pidfd_open.2: Improve description in example
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/pidfd_open.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pidfd_open.2 b/man2/pidfd_open.2 index b67320708a..887aa769d0 100644 --- a/man2/pidfd_open.2 +++ b/man2/pidfd_open.2 @@ -113,13 +113,11 @@ flag in .SH EXAMPLE The program below opens a PID file descriptor for the process whose PID is specified as its command-line argument. -It then monitors the file descriptor for readability -.RB ( POLLIN ) -using -.BR poll (2). -When the process with the specified by PID terminates, +It then uses .BR poll (2) -returns, and indicates that the file descriptor is readable. +to monitor the file descriptor for process exit, as indicated by an +.BR EPOLLIN +event. .\" .SS Program source \& |