From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753638AbbBPRNt (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:13:49 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:40162 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753001AbbBPRNs (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:13:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:13:46 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Documentation/robust-futex-API: remove alternative language Message-ID: <20150216101346.1495da8e@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1424098577-5492-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> References: <1424098577-5492-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:56:17 +0100 Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > The man-pages as well as robust-futexes.txt use the word > "contend" for a situation where two threads try to access > the same futex at the same time. > > To avoid confusion robust-futex-API.txt should not use > "contest" as alternative language. Seems sensible. Applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon