From 0476b8722290a9a5ff29c4b96447a4c4778a9c62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hsbt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:31:43 +0000 Subject: * 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 --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ prelude.rb | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 29f7e6b451..15be522d6a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Thu Apr 17 16:28:10 2014 SHIBATA Hiroshi + + * prelude.rb: [DOC] Update Thread::exclusive docs by @stevenharman. + Thu Apr 17 10:03:53 2014 Nobuyoshi Nakada * lib/fileutils.rb (FileUtils#copy_entry): update rdoc about 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 -- cgit v1.2.3