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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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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ simple lock and unlock operations, and are not recursive.
Every effort has been made to use light-weight underlying primitives when available.
Mutex (mutual exclusion) objects can be thought of as binary semaphores,
-where only a single thread of execution is permitted to "`own`" the semaphore.
+where only a single thread of execution is permitted to acquire the semaphore.
Furthermore, a mutex can only be unlocked by the thread that locked it.