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diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7 index a958b25013..55371e934f 100644 --- a/man7/futex.7 +++ b/man7/futex.7 @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ in which case the application is commonly called multithreaded. .PP Any futex operation starts in userspace, but it may necessary to communicate with the kernel using the -\fBfutex\fR(2) system call. +.BR futex (2) +system call. .PP To 'up' a futex, execute the proper assembler instructions that will cause the host CPU to atomically increment the integer. @@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ system call can optionally be passed a timeout specifying how long the kernel should wait for the futex to be upped. In this case, semantics are more complex and the programmer is referred -to \fBfutex\fR(2) for +to +.BR futex (2) +for more details. The same holds for asynchronous futex waiting. .SH "NOTES" @@ -87,7 +90,8 @@ Implementors are expected to be assembly literate and to have read the sources of the futex userspace library referenced below. .PP -This man page illustrates the most common use of the \fBfutex\fR(2) +This man page illustrates the most common use of the +.BR futex (2) primitives: it is by no means the only one. .SH "AUTHORS" .PP @@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ but with different semantics from those described above. Current semantics are available from Linux 2.5.40 onwards. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP -\fBfutex\fR(2), +.BR futex (2), `Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking in Linux' (proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2002), futex example library, futex-*.tar.bz2 |