From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 21:49:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Recorded merge of revisions 81442 via svnmerge from
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  r81442 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-21 23:48:27 +0200 (Fr, 21 Mai 2010) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 81440 via svnmerge from
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    r81440 | georg.brandl | 2010-05-21 23:47:05 +0200 (Fr, 21 Mai 2010) | 1 line

    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 a2cdb0295b..85a8241a36 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ 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])
@@ -879,9 +879,8 @@ 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::