Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Page 119 Center, second text paragraph |
The sentence "The arc::new function ..." has an error: "..., initializing both counters at one like before..." Note from the Author or Editor: |
Kris van Rens | Apr 26, 2023 | ||
Page p.197 Line 2 |
Change "contrtast" to "contrast" Note from the Author or Editor: |
David Drysdale | Mar 28, 2023 | ||
Page p179 Bullet 8 |
"In addition to pthread" => "In addition to pthreads" (add s) Note from the Author or Editor: |
David Drysdale | Mar 28, 2023 | ||
Page p.135 Paragraph 5 line 2 |
Reword "it's be possible" to "it's possible" or "it can be possible" Note from the Author or Editor: |
David Drysdale | Mar 28, 2023 | ||
Page p.54 Code example under diagram |
Code example on p.54 is repeated from p.53 Note from the Author or Editor: |
David Drysdale | Mar 18, 2023 | ||
Page page 209 2nd code block |
The assert checks that s != u32::MAX - 2, but it is called when s is even. Given that u32::MAX - 2 is odd, the assert won't fire when the max number of readers is reached. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Lucas Trzesniewski | Mar 18, 2023 | ||
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, | Page Chapters 4 and 9 The lock guard |
In Chapters 4 and 9, the Sync implementation of the (Mutex)Guard is missing: |
Mara Bos |
Mar 06, 2023 | |
Page 38 Bullet point 7 |
“Scoped threads are useful to limit the lifetime of a thread to alllow it to borrow non-'static data, such as local variables. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Martin Junghanns | Feb 25, 2023 | ||
Page Chapter 4 (A Minimal Implementation) Tip |
missing word. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Feb 09, 2023 | ||
Page Chapter 3 (Compiler Fences) 3rd paragraph |
double the. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 25, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, | Page 76 (Chapter 4) The note in "A Minimal Implementation" |
is_ok() should be is_err() when used as the loop condition. |
Mara Bos |
Jan 17, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 |
Page Chapter 3 (Release and Acquire Ordering) 4th paragraph |
"we send an 64-bit integer from a spawned thread" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 15, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 | |
Page Chapter 3, "Happens-Before Relationship" 4th paragraph |
"let's take a look the following" -> "let's take a look at the following" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 08, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 | |
Page 7 the last paragraph of "The Leakpocalypse" text box |
Instead of "Only much later, in Rust 1.63, a new std::thread::scoped function was added" it should say "Only much later, in Rust 1.63, a new std::thread::scope function was added". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Vadim Kaushan | Jan 07, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, | Page Page 68, second last paragraph, starting with |
In the explanation of the fence example with three loads and stores, the order of the happens-before relationship was accidentally reversed. |
Mara Bos |
Jan 06, 2023 | Jan 27, 2023 |
Page Chapter 1, "undefined behavior" 6th paragraph? |
The paragraph starts with "This mean that in this code snippet", however, I believe it should read "This means that in this code snippet". (mean -> means) Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Dec 31, 2022 | Jan 27, 2023 |