Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 13:35:31 +0000 (UTC) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r236680 - head/share/man/man9 Message-ID: <201206061335.q56DZVj9017267@svn.freebsd.org>
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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
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