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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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@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ A pointer to the thread object is returned in _thrp_.
The intention of this program is to facilitate writing parallel programs.
Threads created by this program will be based upon the underlying
threading mechanism of the system that _NNG_ is running on.
-This may include use of so-called "`green threads`" or coroutines.
+This may include use of coroutines.
Using threads created by this function can make it easy to write
programs that use simple sequential execution, using functions in the
-_NNG_ suite that would otherwise normally "`block`".
+_NNG_ suite that would otherwise normally wait synchronously for completion.
When the thread is no longer needed, the
xref:nng_thread_destroy.3supp.adoc[`nng_thread_destroy()`]
function should be used to reap it.
(This function will block waiting for _func_ to return.)
-IMPORTANT: Thread objects created by this function may not be "`real`"
-threads capable of performing blocking I/O operations using normal blocking
+IMPORTANT: Thread objects created by this function may not be real system
+level threads capable of performing blocking I/O operations using normal blocking
system calls.
If use of blocking system calls is required (not including APIs provided
by the _NNG_ library itself of course), then real OS-specific threads