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authorjenglish <jenglish@flightlab.com>2002-07-01 18:24:38 (GMT)
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'\" 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 1.13 2000/07/24 00:03:03 jenglish Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Thread.3,v 1.14 2002/07/01 18:24:39 jenglish Exp $
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.so man.macros
.TH Threads 3 "8.1" Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ The size of the thread local storage block. This amount of data
is allocated and initialized to zero the first time each thread
calls \fBTcl_GetThreadData\fR.
.AP Tcl_ThreadId *idPtr out
-The refered storage will contain the id of the newly created thread as
+The referred storage will contain the id of the newly created thread as
returned by the operating system.
.AP Tcl_ThreadId id in
Id of the thread waited upon.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ The size of the stack given to the new thread.
Bitmask containing flags allowing the caller to modify behaviour of
the new thread.
.AP int *result out
-The refered storage is used to place the exit code of the thread
+The referred storage is used to place the exit code of the thread
waited upon into it.
.BE
.SH INTRODUCTION
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ customizing the Tcl core. To enable Tcl multithreading support,
you must include the \fB--enable-threads\fR option to \fBconfigure\fR
when you configure and compile your Tcl core.
.PP
-An important contstraint of the Tcl threads implementation is that
+An important constraint of the Tcl threads implementation is that
\fIonly the thread that created a Tcl interpreter can use that
interpreter\fR. In other words, multiple threads can not access
the same Tcl interpreter. (However, as was the case in previous
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the default size as specified by the operating system is to be used
for the new thread. As for the flags, currently are only the values
\fBTCL_THREAD_NOFLAGS\fR and \fBTCL_THREAD_JOINABLE\fR defined. The
first of them invokes the default behaviour with no
-specialities. Using the second value marks the new thread as
+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