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| author | harti <harti@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-12 09:03:15 +0000 |
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| committer | harti <harti@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-06-12 09:03:15 +0000 |
| commit | c707f7c3f355057843e57959f2e9f1d767bf16f5 (patch) | |
| tree | 43e9bd8b2214e82a8964e90118bc591992b1606f /share/man | |
| parent | 2ab324d92f2f99d78f29a9ba60e06c93498eceed (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-c707f7c3f355057843e57959f2e9f1d767bf16f5.zip FreeBSD-src-c707f7c3f355057843e57959f2e9f1d767bf16f5.tar.gz | |
Rename the section 'locking considerations' into 'context'.
Change the wording in this section to get rid of references to mutexes
and talk about sleeping instead.
Discussed with: jhb@, ru@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/malloc.9 | 15 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 index 9cbfc2e..0cb271a 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.3 1996/11/11 00:05:11 lukem Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd April 9, 2003 +.Dd June 12, 2003 .Dt MALLOC 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ flags .Dv M_DONTWAIT and .Dv M_TRYWAIT . -.Sh LOCKING CONSIDERATIONS +.Sh CONTEXT .Fn malloc , .Fn realloc and @@ -275,15 +275,10 @@ must contain .Fn realloc and .Fn reallocf -must not be called with -.Dv M_WAITOK -while a mutex other than -.Va Giant -is held. -.Va Giant -may or may not be held when +may sleep when called with +.Dv M_WAITOK . .Fn free -is called. +never sleeps. .Pp Any calls to .Fn malloc |
