[PATCH] getdate.3: Add description of the function is not thread-safe

[Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>]

The function getdate() uses a static variable "tmbuf", so it is not thread-safe.

Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao <penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
---
 man3/getdate.3 |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/getdate.3 b/man3/getdate.3
index 7f30f9c..038a49c 100644
--- a/man3/getdate.3
+++ b/man3/getdate.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" Modified, 2001-12-26, aeb
 .\" 2008-09-07, mtk, Various rewrites; added an example program.
 .\"
-.TH GETDATE 3 2010-09-20 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETDATE 3 2011-09-06 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getdate, getdate_r \- convert a date-plus-time string to broken-down time
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -190,6 +190,15 @@ File containing format patterns.
 .BR TZ ", " LC_TIME
 Variables used by
 .BR strptime (3).
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR getdate ()
+function is not thread-safe.
+.LP
+The
+.BR getdate_r ()
+function is thread-safe.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
-- 
1.7.1

-- 
Best Regards,
Peng Haitao

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