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@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ option.
Part of the implementation of the POSIX timers API is provided by glibc.
.\" See nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/timer_create.c
In particular:
-.IP * 3
+.IP \(bu 3
Much of the functionality for
.B SIGEV_THREAD
is implemented within glibc, rather than the kernel.
@@ -295,14 +295,14 @@ value of
.B SIGEV_THREAD_ID
along with a real-time signal that is reserved by the implementation (see
.BR nptl (7)).
-.IP *
+.IP \(bu
The implementation of the default case where
.I evp
is NULL is handled inside glibc,
which invokes the underlying system call with a suitably populated
.I sigevent
structure.
-.IP *
+.IP \(bu
The timer IDs presented at user level are maintained by glibc,
which maps these IDs to the timer IDs employed by the kernel.
.\" See the glibc source file kernel-posix-timers.h for the structure