Don't mention using poll(2) as a timeout.

Not a strictly portable use of the interface and there are more suitable
interfaces for timeouts anyway.

ok schwarze millert

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
index 099e869..ba94dc3 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: poll.2,v 1.35 2017/02/14 17:51:14 tb Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: poll.2,v 1.36 2018/08/18 16:55:30 cheloha Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1994 Jason R. Thorpe
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 14 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 18 2018 $
 .Dt POLL 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -183,12 +183,6 @@ and
 flags may be used to detect when out-of-band socket data may be read
 without blocking.
 .Pp
-In addition to I/O multiplexing,
-.Fn poll
-can be used to generate simple timeouts.
-This functionality may be achieved by passing a null pointer for
-.Fa fds .
-.Pp
 The
 .Fn ppoll
 function is similar to