From dbc61a5038cacc516a49d00a59a669e2617cff51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garrett D'Amore Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:19:06 -0700 Subject: 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. --- docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/man/nng_mtx_alloc.3supp.adoc') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2