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@@ -179,11 +179,21 @@ same manner as
.Fn timeout .
.Sh HISTORY
The current timeout and untimeout routines are based on the work of
-Adam M. Costello and George Varghese, published in a technical report entitled
+.An Adam M. Costello
+and
+.An George Varghese ,
+published in a technical report entitled
.%T "Redesigning the BSD Callout and Timer Facilities"
-and modified slightly for inclusion in FreeBSD by Justin T. Gibbs.
+and modified slightly for inclusion in
+.Fx
+by
+.An Justin T. Gibbs .
The original work on the data structures used in this implementation
-was published by G.Varghese and A. Lauck in the paper
+was published by
+.An G. Varghese
+and
+.An A. Lauck
+in the paper
.%T "Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for the Efficient Implementation of a Timer Facility"
in the
.%B "Proceedings of the 11th ACM Annual Symposium on Operating Systems Principles" .
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