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sd_bus_get_timeout: fix timeout value doc

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The documentation of sd_bus_get_timeout wrongfully states that the returned time-value is relative. In fact, it is an absolute value which is based of CLOCK_MONOTONIC. This change corrects that documentation.
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Urs Ritzmann 2021-12-03 15:47:18 +01:00 committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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man/sd_bus_get_fd.xml
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without any applied timeout. Note that the returned timeout should be considered only a
maximum sleeping time. It is permissible (and even expected) that shorter timeouts are used by
the calling program, in case other event sources are polled in the same event loop. Note that
the returned time-value is relative and specified in microseconds. When converting this value in
order to pass it as third argument to <function>poll()</function> (which expects milliseconds),
care should be taken to use a division that rounds up to ensure the I/O polling operation
the returned time-value is absolute, based of <constant>CLOCK_MONOTONIC</constant> and specified
in microseconds. When converting this value in order to pass it as third argument to
<function>poll()</function> (which expects relative milliseconds), care should be taken to convert
to a relative time and use a division that rounds up to ensure the I/O polling operation
doesn't sleep for shorter than necessary, which might result in unintended busy looping
(alternatively, use
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>ppoll</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>