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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-07-27 16:43:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2015-12-15 14:39:48 +0100 |
| commit | 36a90a75ceedfe44f7e7847a85593f9ba84672f8 (patch) | |
| tree | 54bdf35481aad954fdeaf1c3e3794a1140627a82 | |
| parent | d6bb5a38db5f05d6de749c0b268506a6b30861ed (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-36a90a75ceedfe44f7e7847a85593f9ba84672f8.tar.gz | |
futex.2: wfix
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/futex.2 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/futex.2 b/man2/futex.2 index fbd88ea604..eae9731f42 100644 --- a/man2/futex.2 +++ b/man2/futex.2 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ In the uncontended case, a thread can access or modify the lock state with atomic instructions, for example atomically changing it from not acquired to acquired using an atomic compare-and-exchange instruction. -A thread maybe unable acquire a lock because +A thread may be unable to acquire a lock because it is already acquired by another thread. It then may pass the lock's flag as futex word and the value representing the acquired state as the expected value to a |