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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-02 23:52:20 +0000
commit01548ace1533487f9c0488f55112c9d8641f8184 (patch)
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/getitimer.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/getitimer.212
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getitimer.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getitimer.2
index 9949983..babcd3b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getitimer.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getitimer.2
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ system clock are rounded up to this resolution
.Pp
The
.Dv ITIMER_REAL
-timer decrements in real time. A
+timer decrements in real time.
+A
.Dv SIGALRM
signal is
delivered when this timer expires.
@@ -110,7 +111,8 @@ delivered when this timer expires.
The
.Dv ITIMER_VIRTUAL
timer decrements in process virtual time.
-It runs only when the process is executing. A
+It runs only when the process is executing.
+A
.Dv SIGVTALRM
signal
is delivered when it expires.
@@ -118,7 +120,8 @@ is delivered when it expires.
The
.Dv ITIMER_PROF
timer decrements both in process virtual time and
-when the system is running on behalf of the process. It is designed
+when the system is running on behalf of the process.
+It is designed
to be used by interpreters in statistically profiling the execution
of interpreted programs.
Each time the
@@ -126,7 +129,8 @@ Each time the
timer expires, the
.Dv SIGPROF
signal is
-delivered. Because this signal may interrupt in-progress
+delivered.
+Because this signal may interrupt in-progress
system calls, programs using this timer must be prepared to
restart interrupted system calls.
.Pp
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