Re: Revised futex(2) man page for review

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Pavel,

On 04/27/2015 10:37 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>               The FUTEX_WAIT_OP operation is equivalent to execute the follow???
>>               ing  code  atomically  and totally ordered with respect to other
>>               futex operations on any of the two supplied futex words:
> 
> "to executing"?

Yep. Fixed.

>>               The  operation  and  comparison  that  are  to  be performed are
>>               encoded in the bits of  the  argument  val3.   Pictorially,  the
>>               encoding is:
>>
>>                       +---+---+-----------+-----------+
>>                       |op |cmp|   oparg   |  cmparg   |
>>                       +---+---+-----------+-----------+
>>                         4   4       12          12    <== # of bits
>>
> 
> :-)
> 
>> RETURN VALUE
>>        In the event of an error, all operations return -1  and  set  errno  to
>>        indicate  the  cause of the error.  The return value on success depends
>>        on the operation, as described in the following list:
> 
> Did you say (at the begining) that there is no glibc wrapper?

Yes, this could be clearer. I changed it to

RETURN VALUE
       In the event of an error (and assuming that futex()  was  invoked
       via  syscall(2)), all operations return -1 and set errno to indi‐
       cate the cause of the error.

>>        EINVAL The operation in futex_op is one of those that employs  a  time???
>>               out,  but  the supplied timeout argument was invalid (tv_sec was
>>               less than zero, or tv_nsec was not less than 1000,000,000).
> 
> 1,000...?

Fixed.

Thanks for the comments!

Cheers,

Michael


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