From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: [PATCH] strerror.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:21:59 +0200 Message-ID: <51C107B7.2090001@gmail.com> References: <1371461376-28573-1-git-send-email-penght@cn.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1371461376-28573-1-git-send-email-penght-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Peng Haitao Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, carlos-v2tUB8YBRSi3e3T8WW9gsA@public.gmane.org, aoliva-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/13 11:29, Peng Haitao wrote: > The function strerror() is not thread safe. Thanks Peng. Applied in my branch. > Signed-off-by: Peng Haitao > --- > man3/strerror.3 | 9 +++++++++ > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/man3/strerror.3 b/man3/strerror.3 > index 60d3112..d93bc8a 100644 > --- a/man3/strerror.3 > +++ b/man3/strerror.3 > @@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ is not a valid error number. > .TP > .B ERANGE > Insufficient storage was supplied to contain the error description string. > +.SH ATTRIBUTES > +.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7)) > +The > +.BR strerror () > +function is not thread-safe. > +.LP > +The > +.BR strerror_r () > +function is thread-safe. > .SH CONFORMING TO > .BR strerror () > is specified by POSIX.1-2001, C89, C99. > -- 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