On Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:00:13 pm Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Malcolm Douglas wrote: > > Sorry, not sure if this is the right way to handle this, but I saw a > > doc error. > > > > The pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_timedwait descriptions are > > incorrect in man pthread. > > > > The description is: > > Wait for a condition and lock the specified mutex. > > > > It should be: > > Wait for a condition and unlock the specified mutex. > > The current description is actually correct, but not clear. How about: > > pthread_cond_timedwait() > Unlock the specified mutex, wait no longer than the specified time for > a condition, and then relock the mutex. > > pthread_cond_wait() > Unlock the specified mutex, wait for a condition, and relock the mutex. > > Would that be better?
I believe it is, yes. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
