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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 |
