man-pages/man-pages-adjtimex.2.patch

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diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2
index a6cd9c0..4c43f8a 100644
--- a/man2/adjtimex.2
+++ b/man2/adjtimex.2
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ is a synonym for
.BR TIME_ERROR ,
provided for backward compatibility.
.PP
+.\" commit 9c24771f844b6f0708a72cd116953e0a128e5d2a changed to asynchronous
+.\" operation, so we can no longer rely on the return code.
+Note that as of kernel version 3.0.38 the call operates asynchronously
+and the return value usually will not reflect a state change caused by
+the call itself.
+.PP
On failure,
.BR adjtimex ()
returns \-1 and sets