From 6539f00b202ca2db734643b6e5a08d95b4c9801f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cheloha <cheloha@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:55:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 lib/libc/sys/poll.2 | 10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/poll.2 b/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
index 099e8692d14..ba94dc398c0 100644
--- 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
-- 
2.20.1