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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/gettimeofday.2 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/gettimeofday.2 index 8381cc05..d963e1b3 100644 --- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/gettimeofday.2 +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man2/gettimeofday.2 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" Modified, 2004-05-27 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> .\" Added notes on capability requirement. .\" -.TH gettimeofday 2 2023-07-28 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH gettimeofday 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME gettimeofday, settimeofday \- get / set time .SH LIBRARY @@ -26,18 +26,18 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <sys/time.h> -.PP +.P .BI "int gettimeofday(struct timeval *restrict " tv , .BI " struct timezone *_Nullable restrict " tz ); .BI "int settimeofday(const struct timeval *" tv , .BI " const struct timezone *_Nullable " tz ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR settimeofday (): .nf Since glibc 2.19: @@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ The functions and .BR settimeofday () can get and set the time as well as a timezone. -.PP +.P The .I tv argument is a .I struct timeval (as specified in .IR <sys/time.h> ): -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct timeval { @@ -67,15 +67,15 @@ struct timeval { }; .EE .in -.PP +.P and gives the number of seconds and microseconds since the Epoch (see .BR time (2)). -.PP +.P The .I tz argument is a .IR "struct timezone" : -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX struct timezone { @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ struct timezone { }; .EE .in -.PP +.P If either .I tv or @@ -96,17 +96,17 @@ is NULL, the corresponding structure is not set or returned. .I tv is NULL.) .\" The following is covered under EPERM below: -.\" .PP +.\" .P .\" Only the superuser may use .\" .BR settimeofday (). -.PP +.P The use of the .I timezone structure is obsolete; the .I tz argument should normally be specified as NULL. (See NOTES below.) -.PP +.P Under Linux, there are some peculiar "warp clock" semantics associated with the .BR settimeofday () @@ -175,11 +175,11 @@ On some architectures, an implementation of .BR gettimeofday () is provided in the .BR vdso (7). -.PP +.P The kernel accepts NULL for both .I tv and -.IR tz. +.IR tz . The timezone argument is ignored by glibc and musl, and not passed to/from the kernel. Android's bionic passes the timezone argument to/from the kernel, @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ POSIX.1-2008 marks as obsolete, recommending the use of .BR clock_gettime (2) instead. -.PP +.P Traditionally, the fields of .I struct timeval were of type @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ or .\" Each and every occurrence of this field in the kernel source .\" (other than the declaration) is a bug. Thus, the following is purely of historical interest. -.PP +.P On old systems, the field .I tz_dsttime contains a symbolic constant (values are given below) @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ is in force. it does not indicate that DST is in force, it just selects an algorithm.) The daylight saving time algorithms defined are as follows: -.PP +.P .in +4n .EX \fBDST_NONE\fP /* not on DST */ @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ The daylight saving time algorithms defined are as follows: \fBDST_AUSTALT\fP /* Australian style with shift in 1986 */ .EE .in -.PP +.P Of course it turned out that the period in which Daylight Saving Time is in force cannot be given by a simple algorithm, one per country; indeed, @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ affected by discontinuous jumps in the system time (e.g., if the system administrator manually changes the system time). If you need a monotonically increasing clock, see .BR clock_gettime (2). -.PP +.P Macros for operating on .I timeval structures are described in |