epoll_ctl.2: Fix discussion of "ignored" EPOLLHUP and EPOLLERR with EPOLLEXCLUSIVE

Reported-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/epoll_ctl.2 b/man2/epoll_ctl.2
index 7acc42ef358e96b95fe0c49896a51571f5598ac6..edf02e9a8112e622a5c50bf40eff695317e57823 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/epoll_ctl.2
+++ b/man2/epoll_ctl.2
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ and
 .BR EPOLLHUP
 and
 .BR EPOLLERR
-can also be specified, but are ignored (as usual).
+can also be specified, but this is not required:
+as usual, these events are always reported if they occur,
+regardless of whether they are specified in
+.IR events .
 Attempts to specify other values in
 .I events
 yield an error.