svn commit: r269871 - head/share/man/man3
Gavin Atkinson
gavin at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 12 12:44:53 UTC 2014
Author: gavin
Date: Tue Aug 12 12:44:52 2014
New Revision: 269871
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/269871
Log:
Clarify descriptions of pthread_cond_wait() and pthread_cond_timedwait()
Requested by: Malcolm Douglas via freebsd-doc
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/share/man/man3/pthread.3
Modified: head/share/man/man3/pthread.3
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man3/pthread.3 Tue Aug 12 12:44:40 2014 (r269870)
+++ head/share/man/man3/pthread.3 Tue Aug 12 12:44:52 2014 (r269871)
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 8, 2010
+.Dd August 12, 2014
.Dt PTHREAD 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -344,13 +344,13 @@ Unblock at least one of the threads bloc
.Fa "const struct timespec *abstime"
.Fc
.Xc
-Wait no longer than the specified time for a condition
-and lock the specified mutex.
+Unlock the specified mutex, wait no longer than the specified time for
+a condition, and then relock the mutex.
.It Xo
.Ft int
.Fn pthread_cond_wait "pthread_cond_t *" "pthread_mutex_t *mutex"
.Xc
-Wait for a condition and lock the specified mutex.
+Unlock the specified mutex, wait for a condition, and relock the mutex.
.El
.Ss Read/Write Lock Routines
.Bl -tag -width indent
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