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| author | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2020-06-18 19:19:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org> | 2020-06-18 19:19:06 -0700 |
| commit | dbc61a5038cacc516a49d00a59a669e2617cff51 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b63b03499af29eff7b9c76e352366223ddee1ce /docs/man/nng_mtx_lock.3supp.adoc | |
| parent | 2236819226e579058d9f9fd67f3d684630a40634 (diff) | |
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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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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/nng_mtx_lock.3supp.adoc b/docs/man/nng_mtx_lock.3supp.adoc index 33504da1..91fd2ab5 100644 --- a/docs/man/nng_mtx_lock.3supp.adoc +++ b/docs/man/nng_mtx_lock.3supp.adoc @@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ It is a programming error for the owner of a mutex to attempt to reacquire it. **** -_nng_ offers neither a "`trylock`" operation, nor recursive mutexes. -This is by design, as _nng_ itself does not use such things, +_NNG_ offers neither a non-blocking variant that can fail, +nor recursive mutexes. +This is by design, as _NNG_ itself does not use such things, and most often the need for them is the result of poor design. If such capabilities are needed, they may be synthesized fairly easily from mutexes and condition variables. |