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Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/clone.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/epoll_wait.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/recv.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/send.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/syscalls.2 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/unlink.2 | 2 |
6 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index 8e5eae8060..e88c54eeb6 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@ does not take arguments and .IR child_tid . .SH NOTES -One use of these systems calls +One use of these system calls is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that run concurrently in a shared address space. .P diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2 index 3407785ec7..2a0ad6364f 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_wait.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ of \-1 causes .BR epoll_wait () to block indefinitely, while specifying a .I timeout -equal to zero cause +equal to zero causes .BR epoll_wait () to return immediately, even if no events are available. .P diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2 index 7959bff258..294eca384d 100644 --- a/man2/recv.2 +++ b/man2/recv.2 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ is a per-call option, whereas is a setting on the open file description (see .BR open (2)), which will affect all threads in the calling process -and as well as other processes that hold file descriptors +as well as other processes that hold file descriptors referring to the same open file description. .TP .BR MSG_ERRQUEUE " (since Linux 2.2)" diff --git a/man2/send.2 b/man2/send.2 index 88588148e4..f3de06e4c6 100644 --- a/man2/send.2 +++ b/man2/send.2 @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ is a per-call option, whereas is a setting on the open file description (see .BR open (2)), which will affect all threads in the calling process -and as well as other processes that hold file descriptors +as well as other processes that hold file descriptors referring to the same open file description. .TP .BR MSG_EOR " (since Linux 2.2)" diff --git a/man2/syscalls.2 b/man2/syscalls.2 index c758553934..6c23135063 100644 --- a/man2/syscalls.2 +++ b/man2/syscalls.2 @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ details such as the size of their arguments. the glibc wrapper functions do some work to ensure that the right system call is invoked, and that ABI compatibility is preserved for old binaries.) -Examples of systems calls that exist in multiple versions are +Examples of system calls that exist in multiple versions are the following: .IP \[bu] 3 By now there are three different versions of diff --git a/man2/unlink.2 b/man2/unlink.2 index c43071f120..ed729109d8 100644 --- a/man2/unlink.2 +++ b/man2/unlink.2 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ on .IR pathname . If the .B AT_REMOVEDIR -flag is specified, then +flag is specified, it performs the equivalent of .BR rmdir (2) on |