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authorGarrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>2020-06-18 19:19:06 -0700
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Language cleanups in the documentation.
Mostly this is removal of the smart quotes, which were over-used, and misused, and could have been mistaken to be pejorative. A few other minor nits were fixed while here.
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= nng_cv_wake(3supp)
//
-// Copyright 2018 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech>
+// Copyright 2020 Staysail Systems, Inc. <info@staysail.tech>
// Copyright 2018 Capitar IT Group BV <info@capitar.com>
//
// This document is supplied under the terms of the MIT License, a
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ NOTE: The caller should already have set the condition that the waiters
will check, while holding the mutex.
TIP: This function wakes all threads, which is generally safer but can
-lead to a problem known as the "`thundering herd`" when there are many
-waiters, as they are all woken simultaneously.
+lead to a performance problem when there are many waiters, as they are all
+woken simultaneously and may contend for resources.
See xref:nng_cv_wake1.3supp.adoc[`nng_cv_wake1()`] for a solution to this problem.
== RETURN VALUES