From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:40:59 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Doc tweaks. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09fa32a49e5d9fbd26ea2654e8a2623c5cf841ec;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Doc tweaks. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15857 --- diff --git a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm index 61f93b4..0f2de3f 100644 --- a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm +++ b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm @@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ replacement for the C provided with perl, see the EXAMPLES below. C -Start up an interval timer: after a certain time, a signal is arrives, -and more may keep arriving at certain intervals. To disable a timer, -use time of zero. If interval is set to zero (or unspecified), the -timer is disabled after the next delivered signal. +Start up an interval timer: after a certain time, a signal arrives, +and more signals may keep arriving at certain intervals. To disable +a timer, use time of zero. If interval is set to zero (or unspecified), +the timer is disabled B the next delivered signal. Use of interval timers may interfere with alarm(), sleep(), and usleep(). In standard-speak the "interaction is unspecified", which means that @@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ I, that is, wallclock time. SIGALRM is delivered when the timer expires. ITIMER_VIRTUAL counts time in (process) I, that is, only -when the process is running. In multiprocessing/user/CPU systems this -may be much less than real time. (This time is also known as the -I.) SIGVTALRM is delivered when the timer expires. +when the process is running. In multiprocessor/user/CPU systems this +may be more or less than real or wallclock time. (This time is also +known as the I.) SIGVTALRM is delivered when the timer expires. ITIMER_PROF counts time when either the process virtual time or when the operating system is running on behalf of the process (such as