From 2faeeff4c9bb77cca44a977d96c1a9fc7af8d8a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ruslan Ermilov Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:22:32 +0000 Subject: mdoc(7) police: Tidy up the syscall language. Stop calling system calls "function calls". Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility". When referring to a non-BSD implementation in the HISTORY section, call syscall a function, to be safe. --- lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2') diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 b/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 index b7bfca127205..397388d35078 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/gettimeofday.2 @@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ the kernel. The system's notion of the current Greenwich time and the current time zone is obtained with the .Fn gettimeofday -call, and set with the +system call, and set with the .Fn settimeofday -call. The time is expressed in seconds and microseconds +system call. The time is expressed in seconds and microseconds since midnight (0 hour), January 1, 1970. The resolution of the system clock is hardware dependent, and the time may be updated continuously or in @@ -128,5 +128,5 @@ A user other than the super-user attempted to set the time. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn gettimeofday -function call appeared in +system call appeared in .Bx 4.2 . -- cgit v1.3