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| author | hsbt <hsbt@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2014-04-17 07:31:43 +0000 |
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| committer | hsbt <hsbt@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2014-04-17 07:31:43 +0000 |
| commit | 0476b8722290a9a5ff29c4b96447a4c4778a9c62 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c09d48c9f45cf13885bf800827bc9d1a4301c64 /prelude.rb | |
| parent | cd7aafa855e256c75cb6f46ccd20befdee582611 (diff) | |
* prelude.rb: [DOC] Update Thread::exclusive docs by @stevenharman.
[ci skip][fix GH-589]
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@45612 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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| -rw-r--r-- | prelude.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/prelude.rb b/prelude.rb index 2b371e7134..cc24a81474 100644 --- a/prelude.rb +++ b/prelude.rb @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ class Thread # call-seq: # Thread.exclusive { block } => obj # - # Wraps a block in Thread.critical, restoring the original value - # upon exit from the critical section, and returns the value of the - # block. + # Wraps the block in a single, VM-global Mutex.synchronize, returning the + # value of the block. A thread executing inside the exclusive section will + # only block other threads which also use the Thread.exclusive mechanism. def self.exclusive MUTEX_FOR_THREAD_EXCLUSIVE.synchronize{ yield |