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| author | Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net> | 2021-11-24 11:58:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2021-12-18 19:32:51 +0100 |
| commit | 1f08fc80e4573f8b6356296e511164477b935678 (patch) | |
| tree | ca414163a142e6675b64dc3a1a208b017ff48904 /man7/pthreads.7 | |
| parent | 79c9fe57dd2164c1c58496034851fc499cc91958 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1f08fc80e4573f8b6356296e511164477b935678.tar.gz | |
pthread_cancel.3, pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3, pthread_setcancelstate.3, pthread_testcancel.3, pthreads.7: tfix
Changed cancellation to cancelation.
Signed-off-by: Samanta Navarro <ferivoz@riseup.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/pthreads.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/pthreads.7 | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7 index 6f4f6e763c..380aeb2175 100644 --- a/man7/pthreads.7 +++ b/man7/pthreads.7 @@ -257,17 +257,17 @@ pthread_setcanceltype() .in .SS Cancellation points POSIX.1 specifies that certain functions must, -and certain other functions may, be cancellation points. +and certain other functions may, be cancelation points. If a thread is cancelable, its cancelability type is deferred, -and a cancellation request is pending for the thread, +and a cancelation request is pending for the thread, then the thread is canceled when it calls a function -that is a cancellation point. +that is a cancelation point. .PP -The following functions are required to be cancellation points by +The following functions are required to be cancelation points by POSIX.1-2001 and/or POSIX.1-2008: .PP .\" FIXME -.\" Document the list of all functions that are cancellation points in glibc +.\" Document the list of all functions that are cancelation points in glibc .in +4n .EX accept() @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ writev() .EE .in .PP -The following functions may be cancellation points according to +The following functions may be cancelation points according to POSIX.1-2001 and/or POSIX.1-2008: .PP .in +4n @@ -567,23 +567,23 @@ wscanf() .in .PP An implementation may also mark other functions -not specified in the standard as cancellation points. +not specified in the standard as cancelation points. In particular, an implementation is likely to mark -any nonstandard function that may block as a cancellation point. +any nonstandard function that may block as a cancelation point. (This includes most functions that can touch files.) .PP It should be noted that even if an application is not using -asynchronous cancellation, that calling a function from the above list +asynchronous cancelation, that calling a function from the above list from an asynchronous signal handler may cause the equivalent of -asynchronous cancellation. +asynchronous cancelation. The underlying user code may not expect -asynchronous cancellation and the state of the user data may become +asynchronous cancelation and the state of the user data may become inconsistent. Therefore signals should be used with caution when -entering a region of deferred cancellation. -.\" So, scanning "cancellation point" comments in the glibc 2.8 header +entering a region of deferred cancelation. +.\" So, scanning "cancelation point" comments in the glibc 2.8 header .\" files, it looks as though at least the following nonstandard -.\" functions are cancellation points: +.\" functions are cancelation points: .\" endnetgrent .\" endspent .\" epoll_pwait |