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diff --git a/share/man/man9/sleep.9 b/share/man/man9/sleep.9 index b883f17..0954ae2 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/sleep.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/sleep.9 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" " +.\" .Dd December 17, 1998 .Os .Dt SLEEP 9 @@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ and handle event-based process blocking. If a process must wait for an external event, it is put on sleep by -.Nm tsleep . +.Fn tsleep . The parameter .Ar ident is an arbitrary address that uniquely identifies the event on which the process is being asleep. All processes sleeping on a single .Ar ident are woken up later by -.Nm wakeup , +.Fn wakeup , often called from inside an interrupt routine, to indicate that the resource the process was blocking on is available now. .Pp @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ but only one of them can actually do any useful work when made runnable. .Pp The -.Nm tsleep +.Fn tsleep function is the general sleep call. Suspends the current process until a wakeup is performed on the specified identifier. @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ is returned if the system call should be interrupted by the signal .Er EINTR ) . .Pp The -.Nm msleep +.Fn msleep function is a variation on tsleep. The parameter .Ar mtx is a mutex, which will be exited before sleeping, and entered before -.Nm msleep +.Fn msleep returns. If .Ar pri @@ -144,12 +144,12 @@ appeared in a very early version of .Ux . .Pp The -.Nm tsleep +.Fn tsleep function appeared in .Bx 4.4 . .Pp The -.Nm +.Fn sleep function used to be the traditional form. It does not let you specify a timeout or a .Ar wmesg , |
