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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Next round: revised futex(2) man page for review
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:44:16 +0200
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On 07/27/2015 04:17 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> instruction. A thread maybe unable
> 
> to << missing word
> 
> acquire a lock because it is
> already acquired by another thread. It then may pass the lock's
> flag as futex word and the value representing the acquired state
> as the expected value to a futex() wait operation.

Thanks, Heinrich. Fixed.

Cheers,

Michael