>Number:         10072
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       No description for nanosleep(2)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 08 06:20:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Julian Coleman
>Release:        -current 2000/May/07
>Organization:
Computing Service, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
>Environment:
System: NetBSD aire.ncl.ac.uk 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (AIRE) #1: Tue Jun 22 16:34:55 BST 1999 root@aire.ncl.ac.uk:/usr/src-1.4/sys/arch/sparc/compile/AIRE sparc


>Description:
	The description for nanosleep is, um, lacking.
>How-To-Repeat:
	`man nanosleep`
>Fix:
	Suggested patch to the manual page (cribbed from usleep(3)) :

--- nanosleep.2-	Fri Dec  3 12:08:11 1999
+++ nanosleep.2	Mon May  8 14:11:53 2000
@@ -44,7 +44,16 @@
 .Fd #include <time.h>
 .Ft int
 .Fn nanosleep "const struct timespec *rqtp" "struct timespec *rmtp"
-.\" .Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn nanosleep
+suspends execution of the calling process until either the number of
+seconds and nanoseconds specified by
+.Fa rqtp
+have elapsed or a signal is delivered to the calling process and its
+action is to invoke a signal catching function or to terminate the
+process.  The suspension time may be longer than requested due to the
+scheduling of other activity by the system.
 .Sh RETURN VALUE
 If the 
 .Fn nanosleep
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