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Diffstat (limited to 'man7/pthreads.7')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/pthreads.7 b/man7/pthreads.7 index 4ebfa4edd3..0c4c07bb37 100644 --- a/man7/pthreads.7 +++ b/man7/pthreads.7 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ This identifier is returned to the caller of .BR pthread_create (3), and a thread can obtain its own thread identifier using .BR pthread_self (3). -Thread IDs are only guaranteed to be unique within a process. +Thread IDs are guaranteed to be unique only within a process. A thread ID may be reused after a terminated thread has been joined, or a detached thread has terminated. In all pthreads functions that accept a thread ID as an argument, @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ According to POSIX.1, a process-directed signal (sent using for example) should be handled by a single, arbitrarily selected thread within the process. LinuxThreads does not support the notion of process-directed signals: -signals may only be sent to specific threads. +signals may be sent only to specific threads. .IP \- 3 Threads have distinct alternate signal stack settings. However, a new thread's alternate signal stack settings @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ Threads do not share a common nice value. .\" "make setpriority POSIX compliant; introduce PRIO_THREAD extension" .\" Monitor this to see if it makes it into mainline. .PP -Some NPTL nonconformances only occur with older kernels: +Some NPTL nonconformances occur only with older kernels: .IP \- 3 The information returned by .BR times (2) |