Author: jhb Date: Wed Jun 6 13:35:30 2012 New Revision: 236680 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236680
Log: Use the defined terms "readers" and "writers" to simplify some text. Modified: head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 Wed Jun 6 12:45:48 2012 (r236679) +++ head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 Wed Jun 6 13:35:30 2012 (r236680) @@ -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 _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
