From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peng Haitao Subject: Re: About thread-safety information in library functions' man-pages Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:06:55 +0800 Message-ID: <4CE39B2F.3030906@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <4C7C9EA6.90609@cn.fujitsu.com> <4C8DEC85.8030007@cn.fujitsu.com> <4CE0D541.8030807@cn.fujitsu.com> <4CE0DE06.6020009@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: pasky-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, >>> the headings, and also explain how you came up with the lists? >>> >> >> Because we have classified lots of the functions into following >> classifications: Unsafe, Safe, Safe with Exceptions, MT-Safe, >> MT-Safe with Exceptions. > > Okay -- I'll rephrase the question... ;-). By what means did you work > out the classifications? > The classifications are based on the thread-safety levels defined in Solaris operating system, please refer to Sun's attr(5) page: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0220/6m6nkoroc?l=en&a=view#MT-Level Based on the classifications and POSIX standard, I classify functions by reading source code. -- Best Regards, Peng Haitao -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html