Re: Man page improvement needed ?

2013-12-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 19:20, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 17:48, sven falempin wrote: >> PTHREAD_COND_WAIT(3) is precise but easy to misread. >> >> It first say it will unlock the mutex given as a second argument, and after >> talking about the rest say it will be locked again. >>

Re: Man page improvement needed ?

2013-12-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 17:48, sven falempin wrote: > PTHREAD_COND_WAIT(3) is precise but easy to misread. > > It first say it will unlock the mutex given as a second argument, and after > talking about the rest say it will be locked again. > > This second lock it supposed to have a particular us

Man page improvement needed ?

2013-12-20 Thread sven falempin
Hello, PTHREAD_COND_WAIT(3) is precise but easy to misread. It first say it will unlock the mutex given as a second argument, and after talking about the rest say it will be locked again. This second lock it supposed to have a particular usage, reading documentation about this i found a stackove