[Bug 61911] incorrect sentence in the description of struct pollfd's events field

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911

Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
         Resolution|---                         |CODE_FIX

--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> ---
Thanks, Paolo. I'm not sure what I was thinking of when I wrote that text. I
applied the patch below.

diff --git a/man2/poll.2 b/man2/poll.2
index b0159d2..0a70065 100644
--- a/man2/poll.2
+++ b/man2/poll.2
@@ -89,12 +89,15 @@ The field
 is an input parameter, a bit mask specifying the events the application
 is interested in for the file descriptor
 .IR fd .
-If this field is specified as zero,
-then all events are ignored for
-.IR fd
-and
+This field may be specified as zero,
+in which case the only events that can be returned in
 .I revents
-returns zero.
+are
+.BR POLLHUP ,
+.BR POLLERR ,
+and
+.B POLLNVAL
+(see below).

 The field
 .I revents

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