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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:21:30 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Alexander@leidinger.net
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man3 pthread_cond_timedwait.3 pthread_cond_wait.3
Message-ID:  <20070330.092130.1219861093.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070330125817.sinue9eyo0g4skoo@webmail.leidinger.net>
References:  <200703300410.l2U4A4gV056373@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070330125817.sinue9eyo0g4skoo@webmail.leidinger.net>

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In message: <20070330125817.sinue9eyo0g4skoo@webmail.leidinger.net>
            Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> writes:
: Quoting Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> (from Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:10:04  
: +0000 (UTC)):
: 
: > imp         2007-03-30 04:10:04 UTC
: >
: >   FreeBSD src repository
: >
: >   Modified files:
: >     share/man/man3       pthread_cond_timedwait.3
: >                          pthread_cond_wait.3
: >   Log:
: >   Document that EPERM is returned when the calling thread does not have
: >   the mutex locked.  Also tweak the wording to make it more consistant
: >   between pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_tiedwait.
: >
: >   Confirmed with the opengroup's web site that this is a valid return
: >   value.  Wording used specifically not that of opengroup's online man
: >   pages.
: 
: Don't we have an agreement that we are allowed to use their wording  
: (as long as some conditions are met)?

Yes.  We do.  I didn't want to chase down the right notices to include
for such a simple change.

In general, I think we should consider bringing in all of their man
pages wholesale for the pthreads_* functions, as they are more
detailed than ours.

Warner



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