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| -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 |