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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-03 10:39:54 +0000
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Move the description of the traditional sleep() form out into the history
section, we no longer have it. Fix mdoc style violations caused by a previous committer.
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@@ -108,11 +108,6 @@ possible, and
is returned if the system call should be interrupted by the signal
.Pq return Dv EINTR .
.Pp
-.Nm Sleep
-is the traditional form. It doesn't let you specify a timeout nor a
-.Ar wmesg ,
-hence its use is deprecated.
-.Pp
.Nm Asleep
implements the new asynchronous sleep function. It takes the same arguments
as
@@ -226,9 +221,17 @@ first appeared in
.Fx 3.0
and is designed to shift the burden of blocking
away from extremely low level routines and push it up to their callers.
+.Pp
+.Nm Sleep
+used to be the traditional form. It doesn't let you specify a timeout nor a
+.Ar wmesg ,
+hence it has been discontinued.
.Sh AUTHORS
This man page has been written by
.ie t J\(:org Wunsch.
.el Joerg Wunsch.
-asleep/await designed and written by
+.Nm Asleep
+and
+.Nm await
+designed and written by
.An Matthew Dillon.
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