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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 f240648..b72d955 100644
--- a/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/multiprocessing.rst
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@
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 @@
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::