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Fixes bug #195: The proper name of Apple's operating system is "Mac OS X" not "MacOS X", as can bee seen in many places, for example http://www.apple.com/macosx/). This contrasts the naming of the old operating system, which was called "MacOS" and today is often refered to as "MacOS Classic". The attached patches fixes the misuse of the name "MacOS X" in both the SDL12 and sdlweb CVS modules.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:08:26 +0000
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>Chapter 12. Multi-threaded Programming</H1
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Creates a new thread of execution that shares its parent's properties.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the 32-bit thread identifier for the current thread.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the SDL thread ID of a SDL_Thread</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Wait for a thread to finish.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Gracelessly terminates the thread.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Lock a semaphore, but only wait up to a specified maximum time.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Unlock a semaphore.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Return the current value of a semaphore.</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Create a condition variable</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Destroy a condition variable</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Restart a thread wait on a condition variable</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Restart all threads waiting on a condition variable</DT
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Wait on a condition variable</DT
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