From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] futex.7: NPTL, avoid abbreviation Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 08:56:52 +0100 Message-ID: <54E83A44.4040508@gmail.com> References: <1424165125-6278-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <54E30DC6.3020307@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54E30DC6.3020307-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Heinrich Schuchardt , "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org >> linux-man" Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 02/17/2015 10:45 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > The abbreviation NPTL cannot be assumed to be common knowledge > of all readers of futex.7. > > pthread.7 has details about the NPTL pthreads implementation. Applied. Thanks, Heinrich. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt > --- > man7/futex.7 | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7 > index 87d2997..c3c57f0 100644 > --- a/man7/futex.7 > +++ b/man7/futex.7 > @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ but restricts itself to issues relevant for > application and library development. > Most programmers will in fact not be using futexes directly but will > instead rely on system libraries built on them, > -such as the NPTL pthreads implementation. > +such as the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) (see > +.BR pthreads (7)). > .PP > A futex is identified by a piece of memory which can be > shared between processes or threads. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html