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| author | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-06-06 13:35:30 +0000 |
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| committer | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-06-06 13:35:30 +0000 |
| commit | b9ed43daa7a54d2ccf8666fa598f37194e9e2725 (patch) | |
| tree | bf4b962bd83329374e250c9a8c920bda6eab3557 /share/man/man9/rwlock.9 | |
| parent | 0e4e6ccdcdea3ee93f2da20322ead73b7c47550f (diff) | |
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Use the defined terms "readers" and "writers" to simplify some text.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 b/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 index f7da699..45fc3bd 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 @@ -114,12 +114,10 @@ cannot be held while sleeping. The .Nm locks have priority propagation like mutexes, but priority -can be propagated only to an exclusive holder. -This limitation comes from the fact that shared owners +can be propagated only to writers. +This limitation comes from the fact that readers are anonymous. -Another important property is that shared holders of -.Nm -can recurse, +Another important property is that readers can always recurse, and exclusive locks can be made recursive selectively. .Ss Macros and Functions .Bl -tag -width indent |
