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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2004-12-09 Donal K. Fellows <donal.k.fellows@man.ac.uk> + + * doc/Async.3: Reword for better grammar, better nroff and get the + flag name right. (Reported by David Welton.) + 2004-12-07 Don Porter <dgp@users.sourceforge.net> * tests/unixInit.test (2.1-4): Added constraints so that when a diff --git a/doc/Async.3 b/doc/Async.3 index cae4318..46ab9eb 100644 --- a/doc/Async.3 +++ b/doc/Async.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Async.3,v 1.7 2004/11/20 00:17:31 dgp Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: Async.3,v 1.8 2004/12/09 09:19:50 dkf Exp $ '\" .so man.macros .TH Tcl_AsyncCreate 3 7.0 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" @@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ to a clean state, such as after the current Tcl command completes. .PP \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR, \fBTcl_AsyncDelete\fR, and \fBTcl_AsyncReady\fR are thread sensitive. They access and/or set a thread-specific data -structure in the event of an --enable-thread built core. The token -created by Tcl_AsyncCreate contains the needed thread information it -was called from so that calling Tcl_AsyncMark(token) will only yield -the origin thread into the AsyncProc. -.PP +structure in the event of a core built with \fI\-\-enable\-threads\fR. The token +created by \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR contains the needed thread information it +was called from so that calling \fBTcl_AsyncMark\fR(\fItoken\fR) will only yield +the origin thread into the asynchronous handler. +.PP \fBTcl_AsyncCreate\fR creates an asynchronous handler and returns a token for it. The asynchronous handler must be created before |