svn commit: r203762 - head/share/man/man9
Edward Tomasz Napierala
trasz at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 10 19:03:48 UTC 2010
Author: trasz
Date: Wed Feb 10 19:03:48 2010
New Revision: 203762
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/203762
Log:
Start sentences with a new line.
Submitted by: brueffer
Modified:
head/share/man/man9/locking.9
Modified: head/share/man/man9/locking.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/locking.9 Wed Feb 10 18:56:49 2010 (r203761)
+++ head/share/man/man9/locking.9 Wed Feb 10 19:03:48 2010 (r203762)
@@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ Shared/exclusive locks are similar to re
between them is that shared/exclusive locks may be held during unbounded sleep
(and may thus perform an unbounded sleep).
They are inherently less efficient than mutexes, reader/writer locks
-and read-mostly locks. They don't support priority propagation.
+and read-mostly locks.
+They don't support priority propagation.
They should be considered to be closely related to
.Xr sleep 9 .
In fact it could in some cases be
@@ -192,9 +193,9 @@ Giant is an instance of a mutex, with so
It is recursive.
.It
Drivers and filesystems can request that Giant be locked around them
-by not marking themselves MPSAFE. Note that infrastructure to do this
-is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE drivers either became properly locked
-or disappear.
+by not marking themselves MPSAFE.
+Note that infrastructure to do this is slowly going away as non-MPSAFE
+drivers either became properly locked or disappear.
.It
Giant must be locked first before other locks.
.It
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