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-rw-r--r--man2/pidfd_open.210
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diff --git a/man2/pidfd_open.2 b/man2/pidfd_open.2
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+++ 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
\&