svn commit: r252346 - head/share/man/man9

[Julian Elischer]

On 6/29/13 10:02 PM, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 09:37:42PM +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> On 6/29/13 9:16 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>> -If the owner is not currently actually running then the spin step
>>>> is skipped.
>>>> +then a thread attempting to acquire the mutex will spin rather
>>>> than yielding
>>>> +the processor.
>> Am I wrong in thinking that it will only spin for a short while,
>> eventually yielding?
>> The original text said this but the new text implies it will spin
>> forever.
> The code actually spins until the state of the lock changes or the
> owning thread is no longer running.

either way I think this needs clarification.

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