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| author | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2004-09-06 09:44:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | dkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk> | 2004-09-06 09:44:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 0e5952c887bd1c44ce8a13516659d6e763a2d381 (patch) | |
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More documentation fixes from Mikhail Kolesnitchenko. [Patch 1022527]
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diff --git a/doc/Thread.3 b/doc/Thread.3 index 72b572d..48b7d01 100644 --- a/doc/Thread.3 +++ b/doc/Thread.3 @@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Thread.3,v 1.17 2004/04/26 09:16:50 dkf Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Thread.3,v 1.18 2004/09/06 09:44:57 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Threads 3 "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" .BS .SH NAME -Tcl_ConditionNotify, Tcl_ConditionWait, Tcl_ConditionFinalize, Tcl_GetThreadData, Tcl_MutexLock, Tcl_MutexUnlock, Tcl_MutexFinalize, Tcl_CreateThread, Tcl_JoinThread \- Tcl thread support. +Tcl_ConditionNotify, Tcl_ConditionWait, Tcl_ConditionFinalize, Tcl_GetThreadData, Tcl_MutexLock, Tcl_MutexUnlock, Tcl_MutexFinalize, Tcl_CreateThread, Tcl_JoinThread \- Tcl thread support .SH SYNOPSIS .nf \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR @@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ specialties. Using the second value marks the new thread as \fIjoinable\fR. This means that another thread can wait for the such marked thread to exit and join it. .PP -Restrictions: On some unix systems the pthread-library does not -contain the functionality to specify the stacksize of a thread. The -specified value for the stacksize is ignored on these systems. +Restrictions: On some UNIX systems the pthread-library does not +contain the functionality to specify the stack size of a thread. The +specified value for the stack size is ignored on these systems. Windows currently does not support joinable threads. This flag value is therefore ignored on this platform. .PP @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ allocated and initialized to all zeros the first time each thread asks for it. The storage is automatically deallocated by \fBTcl_FinalizeThread\fR. .SS "SYNCHRONIZATION AND COMMUNICATION" Tcl provides \fBTcl_ThreadQueueEvent\fR and \fBTcl_ThreadAlert\fR -for handling event queueing in multithreaded applications. See +for handling event queuing in multithreaded applications. See the \fBNotifier\fR manual page for more information on these procedures. .PP A mutex is a lock that is used to serialize all threads through a piece @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ The \fBTcl_ConditionNotify\fR, \fBTcl_ConditionWait\fR and not compiling with threads enabled. .SS INITIALIZATION .PP -All of these synchronization objects are self initializing. +All of these synchronization objects are self-initializing. They are implemented as opaque pointers that should be NULL upon first use. The mutexes and condition variables are |