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@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
.\"
.\" See also Section 11.3.3 of Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd edition
.\"
-.TH restart_syscall 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH restart_syscall 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
restart_syscall \- restart a system call after interruption by a stop signal
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B long restart_syscall(void);
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.IR Note :
There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ is later resumed after receiving a
.B SIGCONT
signal.
This system call is designed only for internal use by the kernel.
-.PP
+.P
.BR restart_syscall ()
is used for restarting only those system calls that,
when restarted, should adjust their time-related parameters\[em]namely
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Linux 2.6.
There is no glibc wrapper for this system call,
because it is intended for use only by the kernel and
should never be called by applications.
-.PP
+.P
The kernel uses
.BR restart_syscall ()
to ensure that when a system call is restarted
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Notable examples of system calls that suffer this problem are
.BR select (2),
and
.BR pselect (2).
-.PP
+.P
From user space, the operation of
.BR restart_syscall ()
is largely invisible: