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authorcinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@rei2.9hal>2012-02-15 19:40:08 +0100
committercinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@rei2.9hal>2012-02-15 19:40:08 +0100
commit739846b45263c16a817e9288ec87f371dacc443e (patch)
tree48cf739c525ccf7cbbee516b2658c58615cdf068
parent9f6eb984ece407fcd501492023af13f1ede5e08b (diff)
alarm(1) manpage
-rw-r--r--sys/man/1/alarm16
-rw-r--r--sys/src/cmd/alarm.c3
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/1/alarm b/sys/man/1/alarm
index 1a1276fb3..2e081bbe9 100644
--- a/sys/man/1/alarm
+++ b/sys/man/1/alarm
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
alarm \- ask for delayed note
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B alarm
-[
.I time
-.I path
-.I arg
+.I command
+[
+.I arg ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Alarm
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ causes an
.B alarm
note (see
.IR notify (2))
-to be sent to the process indicated by the argument
-.I path
-after the number of seconds
-given by the argument
-.I time.
+to be sent to the process indicated by
+.I command
+after
+.I time
+seconds.
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/alarm.c
.SH SEE ALSO
diff --git a/sys/src/cmd/alarm.c b/sys/src/cmd/alarm.c
index 04bae6415..ce65a1f2c 100644
--- a/sys/src/cmd/alarm.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/alarm.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ int cpid;
void
usage(void)
{
- fprint(2,"usage: alarm time path arg ...\n");
+ fprint(2,"usage: %s time command [ arg ... ]\n", argv0);
exits("usage");
}
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
Waitmsg *w;
long n, t;
+ argv0 = argv[0];
if(argc < 3)
usage();
n = strtol(argv[1], &p, 10);