groff treats '-' (the character you get when you hit the "minus" key on
the keyboard) as "hyphen", not as "minus". Thus it renders incorrectly
in some locales, and line-wraps strangely.
groff treats the two-character sequence "\-" as "minus", and the
four-character sequence "\(hy" as "hyphen".
Details here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/03/msg01481.html
This commit replaces every instance of "-" in our manpages where the
meaning is "minus" with "\-", so it works right.
This fixes many lintian warnings.
The current implementation in rtai returns accurate times without
much overhead (hundreds of ns at worst, according to measurements by
Andy Pugh). Remove this superstitious advice.