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@@ -327,25 +327,6 @@ T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.ad
.sp 1
.SH VERSIONS
-These system calls first appeared in Linux 2.6.
-.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SUSv2.
-.PP
-On POSIX systems on which these functions are available, the symbol
-.B _POSIX_TIMERS
-is defined in \fI<unistd.h>\fP to a value greater than 0.
-The symbols
-.BR _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK ,
-.BR _POSIX_CPUTIME ,
-.B _POSIX_THREAD_CPUTIME
-indicate that
-.BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC ,
-.BR CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID ,
-.B CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
-are available.
-(See also
-.BR sysconf (3).)
-.SH NOTES
POSIX.1 specifies the following:
.RS
.PP
@@ -370,12 +351,32 @@ clocks using
On Linux, these clocks are not settable
(i.e., no process has "appropriate privileges").
.\" See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11972
-.\"
.SS C library/kernel differences
On some architectures, an implementation of
.BR clock_gettime ()
is provided in the
.BR vdso (7).
+.SH STANDARDS
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+POSIX.1-2001, SUSv2.
+Linux 2.6.
+.PP
+On POSIX systems on which these functions are available, the symbol
+.B _POSIX_TIMERS
+is defined in \fI<unistd.h>\fP to a value greater than 0.
+The symbols
+.BR _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK ,
+.BR _POSIX_CPUTIME ,
+.B _POSIX_THREAD_CPUTIME
+indicate that
+.BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC ,
+.BR CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID ,
+.B CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
+are available.
+(See also
+.BR sysconf (3).)
+POSIX.1-2008 makes thes APIs mandatory.
.\"
.SS Historical note for SMP systems
Before Linux added kernel support for