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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-12-01 09:30:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2018-12-01 09:30:07 +0100 |
| commit | 735e291284d39820b160afd8d6af04e1ddb2da44 (patch) | |
| tree | 2293027771f8626aa6985b55f81b2091b078be32 | |
| parent | 839d161f0f5edd97bf7d7f7952d53526f3bf7b6e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-735e291284d39820b160afd8d6af04e1ddb2da44.tar.gz | |
eventfd.2: Move text noting that eventfd() creates a FD earlier in the page
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/eventfd.2 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/eventfd.2 b/man2/eventfd.2 index 4c9001ed71..a17acaa444 100644 --- a/man2/eventfd.2 +++ b/man2/eventfd.2 @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ counter that is maintained by the kernel. This counter is initialized with the value specified in the argument .IR initval . .PP +As its return value, +.BR eventfd () +returns a new file descriptor that can be used to refer to the +eventfd object. +.PP The following values may be bitwise ORed in .IR flags to change the behavior of @@ -68,11 +73,8 @@ In Linux up to version 2.6.26, the .I flags argument is unused, and must be specified as zero. .PP -As its return value, -.BR eventfd () -returns a new file descriptor that can be used to refer to the -eventfd object. -The following operations can be performed on the file descriptor: +The following operations can be performed on the file descriptor returned by +.BR eventfd (): .TP .BR read (2) Each successful |