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| -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. |