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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000
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mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language.
Stop calling system calls "function calls". Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility". When referring to a non-BSD implementation in the HISTORY section, call syscall a function, to be safe.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/getrusage.2')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getrusage.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getrusage.2
index 599bebc..2efa819 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/getrusage.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/getrusage.2
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
.Ft int
.Fn getrusage "int who" "struct rusage *rusage"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Fn Getrusage
+The
+.Fn getrusage
+system call
returns information describing the resources utilized by the current
process, or all its terminated child processes.
The
@@ -156,7 +158,7 @@ to the first process to read or write the data.
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn getrusage
-function will fail if:
+system call will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The
@@ -177,5 +179,5 @@ that has not yet terminated.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn getrusage
-function call appeared in
+system call appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
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