From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peng Haitao Subject: [PATCH] getpass.3: Add description of the function is not thread-safe Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:40:40 +0800 Message-ID: <4E65EA98.6070807@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org The function getpass() uses a static variable "buf", so it is not thread-safe. Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao --- man3/getpass.3 | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man3/getpass.3 b/man3/getpass.3 index d363ec4..d07a323 100644 --- a/man3/getpass.3 +++ b/man3/getpass.3 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, .\" USA. .\" -.TH GETPASS 3 2010-09-20 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETPASS 3 2011-09-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getpass \- get a password .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ The process does not have a controlling terminal. .\" A .\" .BR getpass () .\" function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) +The +.BR getpass () +function is not thread-safe. .SH "CONFORMING TO" Present in SUSv2, but marked LEGACY. Removed in POSIX.1-2001. -- 1.7.1 -- 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