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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-07-17 22:43:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2025-03-30 12:31:37 +0200 |
| commit | a82917ada0509758ac6d717402858536af3a032d (patch) | |
| tree | ce8bc810a6c9f2f0ef5c7641392613d6b8a2ed0e /man/man3/makecontext.3 | |
| parent | c47826785d91e9cd8c2957d789e50a50e36833e0 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a82917ada0509758ac6d717402858536af3a032d.tar.gz | |
man/: srcfix (\fX => \f[X])
While doing this global change, fix other minor issues found nearby.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/makecontext.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/makecontext.3 | 31 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/makecontext.3 b/man/man3/makecontext.3 index 45009a7a6c..4255e555fb 100644 --- a/man/man3/makecontext.3 +++ b/man/man3/makecontext.3 @@ -40,20 +40,26 @@ between multiple threads of control within a process. The .BR makecontext () function modifies the context pointed to -by \fIucp\fP (which was obtained from a call to +by +.I ucp +(which was obtained from a call to .BR getcontext (3)). Before invoking .BR makecontext (), the caller must allocate a new stack -for this context and assign its address to \fIucp\->uc_stack\fP, +for this context and assign its address to +.IR ucp\->uc_stack , and define a successor context and -assign its address to \fIucp\->uc_link\fP. +assign its address to +.IR ucp\->uc_link . .P When this context is later activated (using .BR setcontext (3) or .BR swapcontext ()) -the function \fIfunc\fP is called, +the function +.I func +is called, and passed the series of integer .RI ( int ) arguments that follow @@ -66,14 +72,19 @@ If the successor context pointer is NULL, the thread exits. The .BR swapcontext () function saves the current context in -the structure pointed to by \fIoucp\fP, and then activates the -context pointed to by \fIucp\fP. +the structure pointed to by +.IR oucp , +and then activates +the context pointed to by +.IR ucp . .SH RETURN VALUE When successful, .BR swapcontext () does not return. -(But we may return later, in case \fIoucp\fP is -activated, in which case it looks like +(But we may return later, in case +.I oucp +is activated, +in which case it looks like .BR swapcontext () returns 0.) On error, @@ -121,7 +132,9 @@ Removed in POSIX.1-2008, citing portability issues, and recommending that applications be rewritten to use POSIX threads instead. .SH NOTES -The interpretation of \fIucp\->uc_stack\fP is just as in +The interpretation of +.I ucp\->uc_stack +is just as in .BR sigaltstack (2), namely, this struct contains the start and length of a memory area to be used as the stack, regardless of the direction of growth of |