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diff --git a/doc/Thread.3 b/doc/Thread.3 index 0b7322a..f65c6e3 100644 --- a/doc/Thread.3 +++ b/doc/Thread.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: 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 $ '\" .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 |