Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Tue Feb 9 09:01:29 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/sys: poll.2
Log Message:
Try improving readability in wrt negations.
Use Nx. Remove trailing whitespace. Fix some typos.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.36 -r1.37 src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
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Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2:1.36 src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2:1.37
--- src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2:1.36 Tue Feb 9 01:12:01 2021
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 Tue Feb 9 09:01:29 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: poll.2,v 1.36 2021/02/09 01:12:01 dholland Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: poll.2,v 1.37 2021/02/09 09:01:29 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2005, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ and
examine a set of file descriptors to see if some of them are ready for
I/O.
For each object inspected, the caller provides a list of conditions
-(called ``events'') to check for, and the kernel returns a list of
+(called ``events'') to check for, and the kernel returns a list of
conditions that are true.
The intent, as with
.Xr select 2 ,
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ will return without blocking.
.Pp
Similarly, if
.Fa ts
-is a non-null pointer, it references a timespec structure which specifies a
+is not a null pointer, it references a timespec structure which specifies a
maximum interval to wait for any file descriptor to become ready.
If
.Fa ts
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ and
block indefinitely.
If
.Fa ts
-is a non-null pointer, referencing a zero-valued timespec structure, then
+is not a null pointer, referencing a zero-valued timespec structure, then
.Fn pollts
and
.Fn ppoll
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ will return without blocking.
.Pp
If
.Fa sigmask
-is a non-null pointer, then the
+is not a null pointer, then the
.Fn pollts
and
.Fn ppoll
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ struct pollfd {
short revents; /* events returned */
};
.Ed
-.\" without this Pp there is no blank line after the struct which is oogly
+.\" without this Pp there is no blank line after the struct which is ugly
.Pp
The fields of
.Fa struct pollfd
@@ -151,11 +151,10 @@ Conditions to poll for.
Conditions that are true.
(Output)
.El
-.Pp
.Ss Conditions
There are four conditions that can be placed in
.Fa events
-and reported in
+and reported in
.Fa revents :
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width XXXPOLLWRNORM -compact
@@ -237,13 +236,13 @@ bitmask to the
.Fa revents
bitmask.
Attempting to perform I/O on this descriptor will then return an error.
-This behaviour is believed to be more useful.
+This behavior is believed to be more useful.
.Pp
The
.Fn ppoll
function is a wrapper for
.Fn pollts
-to provide compatiblity with the Linux implementation.
+to provide compatibility with the Linux implementation.
.Sh ERRORS
An error return from
.Fn poll
@@ -273,7 +272,9 @@ The
.Fn poll
function appeared in
.At V.3 ,
-and was added to NetBSD in
+and was added to
+.Nx
+in
.Nx 1.3 .
The
.Fn pollts
