6311 timer_create(3C) contains misspellings 'SIGALARM' and 'tolerence'

Reviewed by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/usr/src/man/man3c/timer_create.3c b/usr/src/man/man3c/timer_create.3c
index 3af2fd0ba9..2f93e954e3 100644
--- a/usr/src/man/man3c/timer_create.3c
+++ b/usr/src/man/man3c/timer_create.3c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
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 .\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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-.TH TIMER_CREATE 3C "Feb 5, 2008"
+.TH TIMER_CREATE 3C "Sep 15, 2015"
 .SH NAME
 timer_create \- create a timer
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ timer_create \- create a timer
 .fi
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-.sp
 .LP
 The \fBtimer_create()\fR function creates a timer using the specified clock,
 \fIclock_id\fR, as the timing base. The \fBtimer_create()\fR function returns,
@@ -32,8 +31,7 @@ in the location referenced by \fItimerid\fR, a timer \fBID\fR of type
 will be unique within the calling process until the timer is deleted. The
 particular clock, \fIclock_id\fR, is defined in <\fBtime.h\fR>. The timer whose
 \fBID\fR is returned will be in a disarmed state upon return from
-\fBtimer_create()\fR.
-.sp
+\fBtimer_create()\fR, and can be started using \fBtimer_settime\fR(3C).
 .LP
 The \fIevp\fR argument, if non-null, points to a \fBsigevent\fR structure. This
 structure, allocated by the application, defines the asynchronous notification
@@ -41,9 +39,8 @@ that will occur when the timer expires (see \fBsignal.h\fR(3HEAD) for event
 notification details). If the \fIevp\fR argument is \fINULL\fR, the effect is
 as if the \fIevp\fR argument pointed to a \fBsigevent\fR structure with the
 \fBsigev_notify\fR member having the value \fBSIGEV_SIGNAL\fR, the
-\fBsigev_signo\fR having the value \fBSIGALARM\fR, and the \fBsigev_value\fR
+\fBsigev_signo\fR having the value \fBSIGALRM\fR, and the \fBsigev_value\fR
 member having the value of the timer \fBID\fR.
-.sp
 .LP
 The system defines a set of clocks that can be used as timing bases for
 per-process timers. The following values for \fIclock_id\fR are supported:
@@ -93,14 +90,12 @@ example, if the caller that created the timer were to change its processor
 binding or its processor set, the system may elect to drive the timer with a
 hardware source  that better reflects the new binding. Timers based on a
 \fIclock_id\fR of \fBCLOCK_HIGHRES\fR are ideally suited for interval timers
-that have minimal jitter tolerence.
-.sp
+that have minimal jitter tolerance.
 .LP
 Timers are not inherited by a child process across a \fBfork\fR(2) and are
 disarmed and deleted by a call to one of the \fBexec\fR functions (see
 \fBexec\fR(2)).
 .SH RETURN VALUES
-.sp
 .LP
 Upon successful completion, \fBtimer_create()\fR returns \fB0\fR and updates
 the location referenced by \fItimerid\fR to a \fBtimer_t\fR, which can be
@@ -108,7 +103,6 @@ passed to the per-process timer calls. If an error occurs, the function returns
 \fB\(mi1\fR and sets \fBerrno\fR to indicate the error. The value of
 \fItimerid\fR is undefined if an error occurs.
 .SH ERRORS
-.sp
 .LP
 The \fBtimer_create()\fR function will fail if:
 .sp
@@ -143,7 +137,6 @@ calling process.
 .RE
 
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
-.sp
 .LP
 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
 .sp
@@ -163,7 +156,6 @@ Standard	See \fBstandards\fR(5).
 .TE
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.sp
 .LP
 \fBexec\fR(2), \fBfork\fR(2), \fBtime\fR(2), \fBclock_settime\fR(3C),
 \fBsignal\fR(3C), \fBsignal.h\fR(3HEAD), \fBtimer_delete\fR(3C),