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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3')
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3 b/share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3 index 5d02554..dd03f61 100644 --- a/share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3 +++ b/share/man/man3/pthread_cancel.3 @@ -14,11 +14,14 @@ The .Fn pthread_cancel function requests that .Fa thread -be canceled. The target thread's cancelability state and type determines -when the cancellation takes effect. When the cancellation is acted on, +be canceled. +The target thread's cancelability state and type determines +when the cancellation takes effect. +When the cancellation is acted on, the cancellation cleanup handlers for .Fa thread -are called. When the last cancellation cleanup handler returns, +are called. +When the last cancellation cleanup handler returns, the thread-specific data destructor functions will be called for .Fa thread . When the last destructor function returns, @@ -31,7 +34,8 @@ respect to the calling thread returning from .Pp A status of .Dv PTHREAD_CANCELED -is made available to any threads joining with the target. The symbolic +is made available to any threads joining with the target. +The symbolic constant .Dv PTHREAD_CANCELED expands to a constant expression of type @@ -41,7 +45,8 @@ whose value matches no pointer to an object in memory nor the value .Sh RETURN VALUES If successful, the .Fn pthread_cancel -functions will return zero. Otherwise an error number will be returned to +functions will return zero. +Otherwise an error number will be returned to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS .Fn pthread_cancel |
