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Minor grammatical changes to send-and-sync.
Corrects formatting of bullet-ed sentences and changes 'pervasive use raw pointers' to 'pervasive use of raw pointers'
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src/doc/tarpl/send-and-sync.md

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synchronization to manage this access, they are absolutely not thread safe. Rust
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captures this with through the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
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* A type is Send if it is safe to send it to another thread. A type is Sync if
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* it is safe to share between threads (`&T` is Send).
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* A type is Send if it is safe to send it to another thread.
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* A type is Sync if it is safe to share between threads (`&T` is Send).
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Send and Sync are *very* fundamental to Rust's concurrency story. As such, a
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substantial amount of special tooling exists to make them work right. First and
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Major exceptions include:
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* raw pointers are neither Send nor Sync (because they have no safety guards)
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* `UnsafeCell` isn't Sync (and therefore `Cell` and `RefCell` aren't) `Rc` isn't
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* Send or Sync (because the refcount is shared and unsynchronized)
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* raw pointers are neither Send nor Sync (because they have no safety guards).
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* `UnsafeCell` isn't Sync (and therefore `Cell` and `RefCell` aren't).
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* `Rc` isn't Send or Sync (because the refcount is shared and unsynchronized).
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`Rc` and `UnsafeCell` are very fundamentally not thread-safe: they enable
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unsynchronized shared mutable state. However raw pointers are, strictly
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Most uses of raw pointers should be encapsulated behind a sufficient abstraction
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that Send and Sync can be derived. For instance all of Rust's standard
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collections are Send and Sync (when they contain Send and Sync types) in spite
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of their pervasive use raw pointers to manage allocations and complex ownership.
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of their pervasive use of raw pointers to manage allocations and complex ownership.
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Similarly, most iterators into these collections are Send and Sync because they
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largely behave like an `&` or `&mut` into the collection.
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