From 77227d369757568b51678a1bc5239fbf83c40150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 06:05:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] CPU_SET.3: wfix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man3/CPU_SET.3 | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/CPU_SET.3 b/man3/CPU_SET.3 index 7f6200a3b..e63e03bda 100644 --- a/man3/CPU_SET.3 +++ b/man3/CPU_SET.3 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ and similar interfaces. The .I cpu_set_t -data type is implemented as a bit set. +data type is implemented as a bit mask. However, the data structure treated as considered opaque: all manipulation of CPU sets should be done via the macros described in this page. @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ These interfaces are Linux-specific. To duplicate a CPU set, use .BR memcpy (3). -Since CPU sets are bit sets allocated in units of long words, +Since CPU sets are bit masks allocated in units of long words, the actual number of CPUs in a dynamically allocated CPU set will be rounded up to the next multiple of .IR "sizeof(unsigned long)" . @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ note that the constant .B CPU_SETSIZE indicates the number of CPUs in the .I cpu_set_t -data type (thus, it is effectively a count of bits in the bit set), +data type (thus, it is effectively a count of the bits in the bit mask), while the .I setsize argument of the