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annotate docs/man3/SDL_SemWaitTimeout.3 @ 4107:4e3b250c950e SDL-1.2
Erik Heckers fixed bug #493
Searching the installed man pages for SDL functions fails, e.g.
man -k SDL_ |grep Video
After investigating this I found that "makewhatis", the tool that generates
the "whatis" database, reads the SDL_* man pages, but doesn't produce
entries in the "whatis" database for the SDL_* man pages.
After some more debugging I found the reason is a missing space.
After editing SDL_Init.3(.gz) and replacing
SDL_Init\- Initializes SDL
with
SDL_Init \- Initializes SDL
everything works fine.
After running "makewhatis" I can successfully do a
man -k SDL_
and SDL_Init is listed in the output.
author | Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org> |
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date | Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:34:53 +0000 |
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1 .TH "SDL_SemWaitTimeout" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" |
0 | 2 .SH "NAME" |
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3 SDL_SemWaitTimeout \- Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time\&. |
0 | 4 .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
5 .PP | |
6 \fB#include "SDL\&.h" | |
7 #include "SDL_thread\&.h" | |
8 .sp | |
9 \fBint \fBSDL_SemWaitTimeout\fP\fR(\fBSDL_sem *sem, Uint32 timeout\fR); | |
10 .SH "DESCRIPTION" | |
11 .PP | |
12 \fBSDL_SemWaitTimeout()\fP is a varient of \fISDL_SemWait\fR with a maximum timeout value\&. If the value of the semaphore pointed to by \fBsem\fR is positive (greater than zero) it will atomically decrement the semaphore value and return 0, otherwise it will wait up to \fBtimeout\fR milliseconds trying to lock the semaphore\&. This function is to be avoided if possible since on some platforms it is implemented by polling the semaphore every millisecond in a busy loop\&. | |
13 .PP | |
14 After \fBSDL_SemWaitTimeout()\fP is successful, the semaphore can be released and its count atomically incremented by a successful call to \fISDL_SemPost\fR\&. | |
15 .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
16 .PP | |
17 Returns \fB0\fR if the semaphore was successfully locked or either \fBSDL_MUTEX_TIMEOUT\fR or \fB-1\fR if the timeout period was exceeded or there was an error, respectivly\&. | |
18 .PP | |
19 If the semaphore was not successfully locked, the semaphore will be unchanged\&. | |
20 .SH "EXAMPLES" | |
21 .PP | |
22 .PP | |
23 .nf | |
24 \f(CWres = SDL_SemWaitTimeout(my_sem, WAIT_TIMEOUT_MILLISEC); | |
25 | |
26 if (res == SDL_MUTEX_TIMEOUT) { | |
27 return TRY_AGAIN; | |
28 } | |
29 if (res == -1) { | |
30 return WAIT_ERROR; | |
31 } | |
32 | |
33 \&.\&.\&. | |
34 | |
35 SDL_SemPost(my_sem);\fR | |
36 .fi | |
37 .PP | |
38 .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
39 .PP | |
40 \fI\fBSDL_CreateSemaphore\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_DestroySemaphore\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_SemWait\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_SemTryWait\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_SemPost\fP\fR, \fI\fBSDL_SemValue\fP\fR | |
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41 ...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00 |