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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 b/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 index 85af0309ec..1c0de7e3e9 100644 --- a/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 +++ b/man3/pthread_setcancelstate.3 @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Since the thread could be canceled at time, it cannot safely reserve resources (e.g., allocating memory with .BR malloc (3)), acquire mutexes, semaphores, or locks, and so on. -Reserving resources is unafe because the application has no way of +Reserving resources is unsafe because the application has no way of knowing what the state of these resources is when the thread is canceled; that is, did cancellation occur before the resources were reserved, while they were reserved, or after they were released? |