svn commit: r236680 - head/share/man/man9
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 6 13:35:31 UTC 2012
Author: jhb
Date: Wed Jun 6 13:35:30 2012
New Revision: 236680
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/236680
Log:
Use the defined terms "readers" and "writers" to simplify some text.
Modified:
head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9
Modified: head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 Wed Jun 6 12:45:48 2012 (r236679)
+++ head/share/man/man9/rwlock.9 Wed Jun 6 13:35:30 2012 (r236680)
@@ -114,12 +114,10 @@ cannot be held while sleeping.
The
.Nm
locks have priority propagation like mutexes, but priority
-can be propagated only to an exclusive holder.
-This limitation comes from the fact that shared owners
+can be propagated only to writers.
+This limitation comes from the fact that readers
are anonymous.
-Another important property is that shared holders of
-.Nm
-can recurse,
+Another important property is that readers can always recurse,
and exclusive locks can be made recursive selectively.
.Ss Macros and Functions
.Bl -tag -width indent
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