Re: [PATCH 2/2] futex.2: tfix

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On 01/04/2016 04:59 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Jakub. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> diff --git a/man2/futex.2 b/man2/futex.2
> index 8c6c023..7cf0d0b 100644
> --- a/man2/futex.2
> +++ b/man2/futex.2
> @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ unlock(A);
>  If a waker thread used
>  .BR FUTEX_WAKE ,
>  then all waiters waiting on B would be woken up,
> -and they would would all try to acquire lock A.
> +and they would all try to acquire lock A.
>  However, waking all of the threads in this manner would be pointless because
>  all except one of the threads would immediately block on lock A again.
>  By contrast, a requeue operation wakes just one waiter and moves
> 


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