From: Robin Barker Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 14:15:20 +0000 (+0100) Subject: long =item X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=443572f53eddefca4df989a086a52c32f1745d81;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git long =item Message-Id: <200105041315.OAA00436@tempest.npl.co.uk> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9988 --- diff --git a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm index 11848db..0f9d07b 100644 --- a/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm +++ b/ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm @@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ Time::HiRes::sleep() below. Issues a ualarm call; interval_useconds is optional and will be 0 if unspecified, resulting in alarm-like behaviour. -=item tv_interval ( $ref_to_gettimeofday [, $ref_to_later_gettimeofday] ) +=item tv_interval + +S Returns the floating seconds between the two times, which should have been returned by gettimeofday(). If the second argument is omitted, then the @@ -139,7 +141,9 @@ is optional and will be 0 if unspecified, resulting in alarm-like behaviour. This function can be imported, resulting in a nice drop-in replacement for the C provided with perl, see the EXAMPLES below. -=item setitimer ( $which, $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ) +=item setitimer + +S 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,