Re: [PATCH] getlogin.3: Reformat thread-safety information

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Haitao,

Ping on my question at the end of this mail

Thanks,

Michael


On 10/28/2014 09:35 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 10/21/2014 09:48 AM, Peng Haitao wrote:
>>
>> On 10/20/2014 11:50 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>>> <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>> getlogin() is MT-Unsafe and is influenced by setlocale(),
>>>>> So "MT-Unsafe locale" is right.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the confirmation.
>>>>
>>>> Just by the way, I see that the glibc manual says of getlogin:
>>>>
>>>>     MT-Unsafe race:getlogin race:utent sig:ALRM timer locale
>>>>
>>>> I guess this covers some cases beyond what you document. Is that
>>>> correct?
>>>
>>> I haven't reviewed the technical details of this issue, but I would be
>>> very worried if the linux-kernel man pages had different annotations
>>> than glibc.
>>>
>>> My expectation is that Peng should review the glibc annotations and
>>> come talk to us if they are different from what will be documented in
>>> the man pages.
>>>
>>
>> We are reviewing the glibc annotations, the next step will
>> talk to you and Alexandre about the different annotations.
> 
> Thanks for this, Haitao.
> 
>>> We should not have any differences. Either we adjust one or the other,
>>> but both should match.
>>>
>>
>> This is our goal.
> 
> Good!
> 
> Do you have an idea of how long the review process might take?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Micheal
> 
> 


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