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Re: [PATCH] Create nptl manual node and document thread_local limitation
On 03/13/2013 10:57 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 14 March 2013 02:40, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> ChangeLog?
>
> Oh sorry, it was identical to the earlier one, so I didn't post it again.
>
>> Is the @cindex visible anywhere? We want to avoid the colloquial `pthreads'
>> appearing in text.
>
> It appears in the "Concept Index" section:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Concept-Index
>
> I figured it would be useful to link up the keyword since it's a
> commonly known term among users that's not visible anywhere else in
> the manual. Do you still want me to remove it?
No, make it just "threads". We want to use "POSIX threads", "threads",
or the name of the function. I'd like to avoid the term pthread, and
NPTL unless specifically talking about "pthread_*" functions or
defining "Native POSIX Thread Library" and talking directly about
the implementation.
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
Carlos.