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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-10 14:11:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-11 07:49:39 +0200 |
| commit | 3df1b973f9a0d183fc30f934f2a1769cf52ff4ff (patch) | |
| tree | d6b80d232491b16abd1ff9d0fd7e69b9b65ee906 /man2/timerfd_create.2 | |
| parent | f1d97f6e4d7dec8eb6a3bc8deff6b5fe33abb3a7 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-3df1b973f9a0d183fc30f934f2a1769cf52ff4ff.tar.gz | |
timerfd_create.2: Document timerfd_create() TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK
TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK are supported since LInux 2.6.27.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/timerfd_create.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/timerfd_create.2 | 38 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/timerfd_create.2 b/man2/timerfd_create.2 index 9046c98b50..67af33141d 100644 --- a/man2/timerfd_create.2 +++ b/man2/timerfd_create.2 @@ -75,12 +75,32 @@ by discontinuous changes in the system clock The current value of each of these clocks can be retrieved using .BR clock_gettime (3). -The +Starting with Linux 2.6.27, the following values may be bitwise ORed in +.IR flags +to change the behavior of +.BR timerfd_create (): +.TP 14 +.B TFD_NONBLOCK +Set the +.BR O_NONBLOCK +file status flag on the new file descriptor. +Using this flag saves extra calls to +.BR fcntl () +to achieve the same result. +.TP +.B TFD_CLOEXEC +Set the close-on-exec +.RB ( FD_CLOEXEC ) +flag on the new file descriptor. +See the description of the +.B O_CLOEXEC +flag in +.BR open (2) +for reasons why this may be useful. +.PP +In Linux versions up to and including 2.6.26, .I flags -argument is reserved for future use. -.\" Eventually it will probably allow O_CLOEXEC and maybe O_NONBLOCK. -As at Linux 2.6.25, this argument must be specified as zero. -.\" +must be specified as zero. .SS timerfd_settime() .BR timerfd_settime () arms (starts) or disarms (stops) @@ -284,9 +304,13 @@ argument is neither .B CLOCK_MONOTONIC nor .BR CLOCK_REALTIME ; -or +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I flags +is invalid; +or, in Linux 2.6.26 or earlier, .I flags -is invalid. +is non-zero. .TP .B EMFILE The per-process limit of open file descriptors has been reached. |