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Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/rtime.3')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/rtime.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/rtime.3 index a866d0b8..f1168310 100644 --- a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/rtime.3 +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/rtime.3 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" .\" Slightly polished, aeb, 2003-04-06 .\" -.TH rtime 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH rtime 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" .SH NAME rtime \- get time from a remote machine .SH LIBRARY @@ -17,20 +17,20 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B "#include <rpc/auth_des.h>" -.PP +.P .BI "int rtime(struct sockaddr_in *" addrp ", struct rpc_timeval *" timep , .BI " struct rpc_timeval *" timeout ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION This function uses the Time Server Protocol as described in RFC\ 868 to obtain the time from a remote machine. -.PP +.P The Time Server Protocol gives the time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, 1 Jan 1900, and this function subtracts the appropriate constant in order to convert the result to seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). -.PP +.P When .I timeout is non-NULL, the udp/time socket (port 37) is used. @@ -70,23 +70,22 @@ T{ .BR rtime () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE -.sp 1 .SH NOTES Only IPv4 is supported. -.PP +.P Some .I in.timed versions support only TCP. Try the example program with .I use_tcp set to 1. -.\" .PP +.\" .P .\" Libc5 uses the prototype -.\" .PP +.\" .P .\" .nf .\" int rtime(struct sockaddr_in *, struct timeval *, struct timeval *); .\" .fi -.\" .PP +.\" .P .\" and requires .\" .I <sys/time.h> .\" instead of @@ -100,11 +99,11 @@ You may check that the time entry within .I /etc/inetd.conf is not commented out. -.PP +.P The program connects to a computer called "linux". Using "localhost" does not work. The result is the localtime of the computer "linux". -.PP +.P .\" SRC BEGIN (rtime.c) .EX #include <errno.h> |