Merge branch 'ms/daemon-timeout-is-in-seconds'

[git.git] / Documentation / technical / api-run-command.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
index 8994859c8163c0df134dffc97bf57b62f3d3ce4b..f18b4f4817448530a5adbe2c8835bb7791add42a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-run-command.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ The functions above do the following:
   ENOENT; a diagnostic is printed only if .silent_exec_failure is 0.
 
 . Otherwise, the program is run. If it terminates regularly, its exit
-  code is returned. No diagnistic is printed, even if the exit code is
+  code is returned. No diagnostic is printed, even if the exit code is
   non-zero.
 
 . If the program terminated due to a signal, then the return value is the
@@ -231,8 +231,9 @@ The function pointer in .proc has the following signature:
 
 
 There are serious restrictions on what the asynchronous function can do
-because this facility is implemented by a pipe to a forked process on
-UNIX, but by a thread in the same address space on Windows:
+because this facility is implemented by a thread in the same address
+space on most platforms (when pthreads is available), but by a pipe to
+a forked process otherwise:
 
 . It cannot change the program's state (global variables, environment,
   etc.) in a way that the caller notices; in other words, .in and .out