X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/ed446867f5e1ab8f3978533b525d0aeed344c32f..ce756cb06a93facb4faa35a1d57c7038fc26e8e1:/docs/latex/wx/thread.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/thread.tex b/docs/latex/wx/thread.tex index fa40d4e833..1559443b69 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/thread.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/thread.tex @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ A thread is basically a path of execution through a program. Threads are sometimes called {\it light-weight processes}, but the fundamental difference between threads and processes is that memory spaces of different processes are separated while all threads share the same address space. While it makes it -much easier to share common data between several threads, it also makes much +much easier to share common data between several threads, it also makes it much easier to shoot oneself in the foot, so careful use of synchronization objects such as \helpref{mutexes}{wxmutex} and/or \helpref{critical sections}{wxcriticalsection} is recommended. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ The possible values for {\it kind} parameters are: \end{twocollist} -\membersection{wxThread::\destruct{wxThread}} +\membersection{wxThread::\destruct{wxThread}}\label{wxthreaddtor} \func{}{\destruct{wxThread}}{\void} @@ -203,11 +203,10 @@ The following priorities are defined: Returns \true if the thread is alive (i.e. started and not terminating). -Note that this function can only be saely used with joinable threads, not +Note that this function can only safely be used with joinable threads, not detached ones as the latter delete themselves and so when the real thread is -not alive any longer it is not possible to call this function neither because -the wxThread object doesn't exist any more as well. - +no longer alive, it is not possible to call this function because +the wxThread object no longer exists. \membersection{wxThread::IsDetached}\label{wxthreadisdetached}