LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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diff --git a/original/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/original/man2/epoll_wait.2
index bac8153..7819e00 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/epoll_wait.2
+++ b/original/man2/epoll_wait.2
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" 2007-04-30: mtk, Added description of epoll_pwait()
 .\"
-.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2014-01-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH EPOLL_WAIT 2 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 epoll_wait, epoll_pwait \- wait for an I/O event on an epoll file descriptor
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ to return immediately, even if no events are available.
 
 The
 .I struct epoll_event
-is defined as :
+is defined as:
 .sp
 .in +4n
 .nf
@@ -226,12 +226,25 @@ is 4 and the kernel
 .I HZ
 value is 1000,
 this means that timeouts greater than 35.79 minutes are treated as infinity.
+.SS C library/kernel ABI differences
+The raw
+.BR epoll_pwait ()
+system call has a sixth argument,
+.IR "size_t sigsetsize" ,
+which specifies the size in bytes of the
+.IR sigmask
+argument.
+The glibc
+.BR epoll_pwait ()
+wrapper function specifies this argument as a fixed value
+(equal to
+.IR sizeof(sigset_t) ).
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR epoll_create (2),
 .BR epoll_ctl (2),
 .BR epoll (7)
 .SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.67 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
 .I man-pages
 project.
 A description of the project,