src/poll.rs

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ use {Errno, Result};
 /// This is a wrapper around `libc::pollfd`.
 ///
 /// It's meant to be used as an argument to the [`poll`](fn.poll.html) and
-/// [`ppoll`](fn.ppoll.html) functions to specify the events of interes
+/// [`ppoll`](fn.ppoll.html) functions to specify the events of interest
 /// for a specific file descriptor.
 ///
 /// After a call to `poll` or `ppoll`, the events that occured can be
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub struct PollFd {
 }
 
 impl PollFd {
-    /// Creates a new `PollFd` specifying the events of interested
+    /// Creates a new `PollFd` specifying the events of interest
     /// for a given file descriptor.
     pub fn new(fd: RawFd, events: EventFlags) -> PollFd {
         PollFd {
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ libc_bitflags! {
 /// `poll` waits for one of a set of file descriptors to become ready to perform I/O.
 /// ([`poll(2)`](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/poll.2.html))
 ///
-/// `fds` is a slice containing all [`PollFd`](struct.PollFd.html) to poll.
-/// The function will return as soon as one event registered in one of the `PollFd` occurs.
+/// `fds` contains all [`PollFd`](struct.PollFd.html) to poll.
+/// The function will return as soon as any event occur for any of these `PollFd`s.
 ///
 /// The `timeout` argument specifies the number of milliseconds that `poll()`
 /// should block waiting for a file descriptor to become ready.  The call
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ pub fn poll(fds: &mut [PollFd], timeout: libc::c_int) -> Result<libc::c_int> {
 /// descriptor becomes ready or until a signal is caught.
 /// ([`poll(2)`](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/poll.2.html))
 ///
-/// `ppoll` behaves like `poll`, but let you precise what signals may interrupt it
+/// `ppoll` behaves like `poll`, but let you specify what signals may interrupt it
 /// with the `sigmask` argument.
 ///
 #[cfg(any(target_os = "android", target_os = "dragonfly", target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "linux"))]