Re: Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] futex.7: NPTL, avoid abbreviation

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  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.
> 


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