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diff --git a/docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc b/docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc index 696c3e56..45bbfac2 100644 --- a/docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc +++ b/docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc @@ -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. |