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Diffstat (limited to 'shmem/unix/mm/mm.pod')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/shmem/unix/mm/mm.pod b/shmem/unix/mm/mm.pod index b98fcfa04..7746612b5 100644 --- a/shmem/unix/mm/mm.pod +++ b/shmem/unix/mm/mm.pod @@ -137,17 +137,17 @@ for the POSIX.1 memory allocation API (malloc(2) and friends). This is useful when converting I<heap> based data structures to I<shared memory> based data structures without the need to change the code dramatically. All which is needed is to prefix the POSIX.1 memory allocation functions with -C<MM_>, i.e. C<malloc> becomes C<MM_malloc>, C<strdup> becomes C<MM_strdup>, -etc. This API internally uses just a global C<MM*> pool for calling the -corresponding functions (with prefix C<mm_>) of the I<Standard Malloc-Style -API>. +`C<MM_>', i.e. `C<malloc>' becomes `C<MM_malloc>', `C<strdup>' becomes +`C<MM_strdup>', etc. This API internally uses just a global `C<MM *>' pool for +calling the corresponding functions (with prefix `C<mm_>') of the I<Standard +Malloc-Style API>. =item B<Standard Malloc-Style API> -This is the standard high-level memory allocation API. It's interface is -similar to the I<Global Malloc-Replacement API> but it uses an explicit C<MM*> +This is the standard high-level memory allocation API. Its interface is +similar to the I<Global Malloc-Replacement API> but it uses an explicit `C<MM *>' pool to operate on. That's why every function of this API has an argument of -type C<MM*> as the first argument. This API provides a comfortable way to +type `C<MM *>' as the first argument. This API provides a comfortable way to work with small dynamically allocated shared memory chunks inside large statically allocated shared memory segments. It's internally based on the I<Low-Level Shared Memory API> for creating the underlaying shared memory @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ perform either shared/read-only (I<mode> is C<MM_LOCK_RD>) or exclusive/read-write (I<mode> is C<MM_LOCK_RW>) operations inside the global shared memory pool. -=item int B<MM_unlock>(MM *I<mm>); +=item int B<mm_unlock>(MM *I<mm>); This unlocks the shared memory pool I<mm> for the current process after mutual exclusion operations were performed inside the global shared memory pool. @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ This library was originally written in January 1999 by I<Ralf S. Engelschall> HTTP server project (see www.apache.org), which was originally invented for B<mod_ssl> (see http://www.modssl.org/). -It's base idea (a malloc-style API for handling shared memory) was originally +Its base idea (a malloc-style API for handling shared memory) was originally derived from the non-publically available I<mm_malloc> library written in October 1997 by I<Charles Randall> <crandall@matchlogic.com> for MatchLogic, Inc. |