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authoradam <adam@FreeBSD.org>1996-07-19 13:07:42 +0000
committeradam <adam@FreeBSD.org>1996-07-19 13:07:42 +0000
commit742697ede9b6b4fa2eb003ddd93e43b342b4249c (patch)
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parent699492bba810a111d8bd13562f40f04127c345e5 (diff)
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the previous text was absurd, and wrong
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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/alarm.34
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3 b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
index fb1893f..a9a04ce 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/alarm.3
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ waits a count of
.Ar seconds
before asserting the terminating signal
.Dv SIGALRM .
-When the signal has successfully been caught,
.Fn alarm
-returns the amount of time left on the clock.
+returns the amount of time unexpired
+from any previously pending alarm.
The maximum number of
.Ar seconds
allowed
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