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authorDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-02-13 13:16:41 +0000
committerDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-02-13 13:16:41 +0000
commit6732462e78bb9a6003921efc212936deecfb7ab1 (patch)
treeb3c1ab6adfab7b038692886094cd7dd13b905e68 /share/man/man9
parent463d19dbea3acf1ad240aecd563259c07c886356 (diff)
use the return values section to document return values
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/mutex.910
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/mutex.9 b/share/man/man9/mutex.9
index 888bafd9ff4..22b2ad7a100 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/mutex.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/mutex.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mutex.9,v 1.20 2014/02/13 13:12:32 dlg Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mutex.9,v 1.21 2014/02/13 13:16:40 dlg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Pedro Martelletto <pedro@ambientworks.net>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ function acquires a mutex, spinning if necessary.
The
.Fn mtx_enter_try
function attempts to acquire a mutex.
-If it succeeds in acquiring the mutex it will return non-zero, otherwise
-it will return 0.
.Pp
The
.Fn mtx_leave
@@ -99,6 +97,12 @@ can be called during autoconf, from process context, or from any
interrupt context at or below the interrupt level
.Fa mtxp
was initialised with.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn mtx_enter_try
+function will return non-zero If it succeeds in acquiring the mutex
+.Fa mtxp ,
+otherwise it will return 0.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr lockmgr 9 ,
.Xr msleep 9 ,