From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:47:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Correct info for Semaphore.acquire() semantics under OSX.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7rc1~112
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=042d6a4f75a0919258da81982f604f4662428340;p=python

Correct info for Semaphore.acquire() semantics under OSX.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
index f6dfcc42e3..a01ebbd57e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ object -- see :ref:`multiprocessing-managers`.
 
    A bounded semaphore object: a clone of :class:`threading.BoundedSemaphore`.
 
-   (On Mac OS X this is indistinguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because
+   (On Mac OS X, this is indistinguishable from :class:`Semaphore` because
    ``sem_getvalue()`` is not implemented on that platform).
 
 .. class:: Condition([lock])
@@ -881,9 +881,8 @@ object -- see :ref:`multiprocessing-managers`.
    specifies a timeout in seconds.  If *block* is ``False`` then *timeout* is
    ignored.
 
-.. note::
-   On OS/X ``sem_timedwait`` is unsupported, so timeout arguments for the
-   aforementioned :meth:`acquire` methods will be ignored on OS/X.
+   On Mac OS X, ``sem_timedwait`` is unsupported, so calling ``acquire()`` with
+   a timeout will emulate that function's behavior using a sleeping loop.
 
 .. note::