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authorMike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-01 08:03:31 +0000
committerMike Pechkin <mpech@cvs.openbsd.org>2002-05-01 08:03:31 +0000
commit41434dbdbf3099a023505b5b3915bf4d9b778ee1 (patch)
tree1ca936fb3301ad4347fcc3a38fd2c83e87a15817 /lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3
parent04e9f1abe6384e852ca0207d882814dab9237dd4 (diff)
o) start new sentence on a new line;
o) always close .Bl tags; o) fix usage of .Xr; millert@ ok
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diff --git a/lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3 b/lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3
index db1b4fbf03f..6c1153e9e94 100644
--- a/lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3
+++ b/lib/libpthread/man/pthread_exit.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pthread_exit.3,v 1.9 2002/02/21 20:12:19 fgsch Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pthread_exit.3,v 1.10 2002/05/01 08:03:30 mpech Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -47,12 +47,14 @@ The
.Fn pthread_exit
function terminates the calling thread and makes the value
.Fa value_ptr
-available to any successful join with the terminating thread. Any
+available to any successful join with the terminating thread.
+Any
cancellation cleanup handlers that have been pushed and are not yet popped
are popped in the reverse order that they were pushed and then executed.
After all cancellation handlers have been executed, if the thread has any
thread-specific data, appropriate destructor functions are called in an
-unspecified order. Thread termination does not release any application
+unspecified order.
+Thread termination does not release any application
visible process resources, including, but not limited to, mutexes and
file descriptors, nor does it perform any process level cleanup
actions, including, but not limited to, calling
@@ -73,14 +75,16 @@ that was invoked as the result of an implicit or explicit call to
.Fn pthread_exit .
.Pp
After a thread has terminated, the result of access to local (auto)
-variables of the thread is undefined. Thus, references to local variables
+variables of the thread is undefined.
+Thus, references to local variables
of the exiting thread should not be used for the
.Fn pthread_exit
.Fa value_ptr
parameter value.
.Pp
The process will exit with an exit status of 0 after the last thread has
-been terminated. The behavior is as if the implementation called
+been terminated.
+The behavior is as if the implementation called
.Fn exit
with a zero argument at thread termination time.
.Sh RETURN VALUES