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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-15 06:31:22 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-15 06:48:20 +1300
commit9982c065da48d557ef6e69362492f36990704627 (patch)
tree35e40e5d521ae08e2fe484d06e6bbbfa24a5afd9
parent6a6d83b2c736faea028ebbc3aec97ac6d326afef (diff)
downloadman-pages-9982c065da48d557ef6e69362492f36990704627.tar.gz
epoll_ctl.2: Fix discussion of "ignored" EPOLLHUP and EPOLLERR with EPOLLEXCLUSIVE
Reported-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/epoll_ctl.25
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 b/man2/epoll_ctl.2
index 7acc42ef35..edf02e9a81 100644
--- a/man2/epoll_ctl.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_ctl.2
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ and
.BR EPOLLHUP
and
.BR EPOLLERR
-can also be specified, but are ignored (as usual).
+can also be specified, but this is not required:
+as usual, these events are always reported if they occur,
+regardless of whether they are specified in
+.IR events .
Attempts to specify other values in
.I events
yield an error.