On 02/17/2015 10:45 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > The abbreviation NPTL cannot be assumed to be common knowledge > of all readers of futex.7. > > pthread.7 has details about the NPTL pthreads implementation. Applied. Thanks, Heinrich. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> > --- > man7/futex.7 | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man7/futex.7 b/man7/futex.7 > index 87d2997..c3c57f0 100644 > --- a/man7/futex.7 > +++ b/man7/futex.7 > @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ but restricts itself to issues relevant for > application and library development. > Most programmers will in fact not be using futexes directly but will > instead rely on system libraries built on them, > -such as the NPTL pthreads implementation. > +such as the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) (see > +.BR pthreads (7)). > .PP > A futex is identified by a piece of memory which can be > shared between processes or threads. > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
