Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] nptl: Add pthread_clockjoin_np

[Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>]

Mike, Adhemerval,

This patch series contains this excerpt:

> commit 69ca4b54c151cec42ccca5e05790efc1a8206b47
> Author: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
> Date:   Thu Oct 31 10:03:21 2019 -0300
> 
>     nptl: Add pthread_clockjoin_np
>     
>     Introduce pthread_clockjoin_np as a version of pthread_timedjoin_np
> that
>     accepts a clockid_t parameter to indicate which clock the timeout
> should be
>     measured against. This mirrors the recently-added POSIX-proposed
> "clock"
>     wait functions.
>     
>     Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
>     
>     Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 75b380c0f8..3006b1a8e4 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ Major new features:
>    will always receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
>    tz_dsttime fields are zero.
>  
> +* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
> +  terminated thread with an specific clock.  It allows waiting against

I think: "with a specific" -^^

> [...]
> diff --git a/manual/threads.texi b/manual/threads.texi
> index c0b504dc1f..e40b55c090 100644
> --- a/manual/threads.texi
> +++ b/manual/threads.texi
> @@ -751,6 +751,18 @@ reached if the thread has not terminated by that time
> and return
>  will wait forever in the same way as @code{pthread_join}.
>  @end deftypefun
>  
> +@comment pthread.h
> +@comment GNU extension
> +@deftypefun int pthread_clockjoin_np (pthread_t *@var{thread},
> +                                     void **@var{thread_return},
> +                                      clockid_t @var{clockid},
> +                                     const struct timespec
> *@var{abstime})
> +@standards{GNU, pthread.h}
> +@safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asulock{}}@acunsafe{@aculock{}}}
> +Behaves like @code{pthread_timedjoin_np} except that time absolute time
> in

Did you mean "that the absolute"? ----------------------^^^^

Regards,

Rafal