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Diffstat (limited to 'man2/getitimer.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/getitimer.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/getitimer.2 b/man2/getitimer.2 index 0a371dd5b2..ec88ee67e3 100644 --- a/man2/getitimer.2 +++ b/man2/getitimer.2 @@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ representation exceeds (defined in .IR include/linux/jiffies.h ), then the timer is silently truncated to this ceiling value. -On Linux/x86 (where, since kernel 2.6.13, +On Linux/i386 (where, since kernel 2.6.13, the default jiffy is 0.004 seconds), this means that the ceiling value for a timer is approximately 99.42 days. -On certain systems (including x86), +On certain systems (including i386), Linux kernels before version 2.6.12 have a bug which will produce premature timer expirations of up to one jiffy under some circumstances. This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.12. |