From 1651e2c61e544de9ca947c8b3202552b1272ef57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 21:44:36 -0400 Subject: man,journal: add note about sd_journal_get_cutoff_monotonic_usec return value Also modify the function itself to be a bit simpler to read. --- man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml | 36 ++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml b/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml index 0b24399088..673cff4591 100644 --- a/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml +++ b/man/sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec.xml @@ -74,25 +74,29 @@ Description sd_journal_get_cutoff_realtime_usec() - gets the realtime (wallclock) timestamps of the first - and last entries accessible in the journal. It takes - three arguments: the journal context object and two - pointers to 64-bit unsigned integers to store the - timestamps in. The timestamps are in microseconds - since the epoch, + retrieves the realtime (wallclock) timestamps of the + first and last entries accessible in the journal. It + takes three arguments: the journal context object + j and two pointers + from and + to pointing at 64-bit unsigned + integers to store the timestamps in. The timestamps + are in microseconds since the epoch, i.e. CLOCK_REALTIME. Either one of the two timestamp arguments may be passed as NULL in case the timestamp is not needed, but not both. sd_journal_get_cutoff_monotonic_usec() - gets the monotonic timestamps of the first and last - entries accessible in the journal. It takes three - arguments: the journal context object, a 128-bit - identifier for the boot, and two pointers to 64-bit - unsigned integers to store the timestamps. The - timestamps are in microseconds since boot-up of the - specific boot, + retrieves the monotonic timestamps of the first and + last entries accessible in the journal. It takes three + arguments: the journal context object + j, a 128-bit identifier for the + boot boot_id, and two pointers + to 64-bit unsigned integers to store the timestamps, + from and + to. The timestamps are in + microseconds since boot-up of the specific boot, i.e. CLOCK_MONOTONIC. Since the monotonic clock begins new with every reboot it only defines a well-defined point in time when used @@ -113,6 +117,12 @@ sd_journal_get_cutoff_monotonic_usec() return 1 on success, 0 if not suitable entries are in the journal or a negative errno-style error code. + + Locations pointed to by parameters + from and + to will be set only if the + return value is positive, and obviously, the + parameters are non-null. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf